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I want to refer to the timeframe of Summer 2019 in the Northern hemisphere. However, the writing is intended for a global audience, and when it is Summer in the Northern hemisphere it will be Winter in the southern hemisphere.



Is there terminology I can use that refers to that period of time in both hemispheres?










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  • Welcome to Writing.SE! Interesting question, but couldn't you just mention the relevant months and then add that it's summer in the norther hemisphere? By the way, if you have any questions about how the site works have a look at the tour and help center. Have fun!

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  • Do you specify a location? If you set your story in the UK, for example, just use the season appropriate to the locale.

    – Rasdashan
    6 hours ago






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    @Secespitus Thank you! That's a good solution, I might do that.

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    @Rasdashan this is not a story, it's a piece of technical writing that will be read globally.

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    Welcome to Writing.SE lamsodarncool. We're glad to have you and to have more questions about technical writing. We ask though that you wait a full day or two before accepting an answer. While the answer you chose was excellent, the idea is to encourage more people to answer. You might end up with even more great ideas, which is the point, no? There is no time limit before you have to accept an answer and you'll always get those 2 extra points.

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I want to refer to the timeframe of Summer 2019 in the Northern hemisphere. However, the writing is intended for a global audience, and when it is Summer in the Northern hemisphere it will be Winter in the southern hemisphere.



Is there terminology I can use that refers to that period of time in both hemispheres?










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  • Welcome to Writing.SE! Interesting question, but couldn't you just mention the relevant months and then add that it's summer in the norther hemisphere? By the way, if you have any questions about how the site works have a look at the tour and help center. Have fun!

    – Secespitus
    6 hours ago











  • Do you specify a location? If you set your story in the UK, for example, just use the season appropriate to the locale.

    – Rasdashan
    6 hours ago






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    @Secespitus Thank you! That's a good solution, I might do that.

    – Iamsodarncool
    6 hours ago






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    @Rasdashan this is not a story, it's a piece of technical writing that will be read globally.

    – Iamsodarncool
    6 hours ago






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    Welcome to Writing.SE lamsodarncool. We're glad to have you and to have more questions about technical writing. We ask though that you wait a full day or two before accepting an answer. While the answer you chose was excellent, the idea is to encourage more people to answer. You might end up with even more great ideas, which is the point, no? There is no time limit before you have to accept an answer and you'll always get those 2 extra points.

    – Cyn
    3 hours ago














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I want to refer to the timeframe of Summer 2019 in the Northern hemisphere. However, the writing is intended for a global audience, and when it is Summer in the Northern hemisphere it will be Winter in the southern hemisphere.



Is there terminology I can use that refers to that period of time in both hemispheres?










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I want to refer to the timeframe of Summer 2019 in the Northern hemisphere. However, the writing is intended for a global audience, and when it is Summer in the Northern hemisphere it will be Winter in the southern hemisphere.



Is there terminology I can use that refers to that period of time in both hemispheres?







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  • Welcome to Writing.SE! Interesting question, but couldn't you just mention the relevant months and then add that it's summer in the norther hemisphere? By the way, if you have any questions about how the site works have a look at the tour and help center. Have fun!

    – Secespitus
    6 hours ago











  • Do you specify a location? If you set your story in the UK, for example, just use the season appropriate to the locale.

    – Rasdashan
    6 hours ago






  • 1





    @Secespitus Thank you! That's a good solution, I might do that.

    – Iamsodarncool
    6 hours ago






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    @Rasdashan this is not a story, it's a piece of technical writing that will be read globally.

    – Iamsodarncool
    6 hours ago






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    Welcome to Writing.SE lamsodarncool. We're glad to have you and to have more questions about technical writing. We ask though that you wait a full day or two before accepting an answer. While the answer you chose was excellent, the idea is to encourage more people to answer. You might end up with even more great ideas, which is the point, no? There is no time limit before you have to accept an answer and you'll always get those 2 extra points.

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  • Welcome to Writing.SE! Interesting question, but couldn't you just mention the relevant months and then add that it's summer in the norther hemisphere? By the way, if you have any questions about how the site works have a look at the tour and help center. Have fun!

    – Secespitus
    6 hours ago











  • Do you specify a location? If you set your story in the UK, for example, just use the season appropriate to the locale.

    – Rasdashan
    6 hours ago






  • 1





    @Secespitus Thank you! That's a good solution, I might do that.

    – Iamsodarncool
    6 hours ago






  • 3





    @Rasdashan this is not a story, it's a piece of technical writing that will be read globally.

    – Iamsodarncool
    6 hours ago






  • 1





    Welcome to Writing.SE lamsodarncool. We're glad to have you and to have more questions about technical writing. We ask though that you wait a full day or two before accepting an answer. While the answer you chose was excellent, the idea is to encourage more people to answer. You might end up with even more great ideas, which is the point, no? There is no time limit before you have to accept an answer and you'll always get those 2 extra points.

    – Cyn
    3 hours ago

















Welcome to Writing.SE! Interesting question, but couldn't you just mention the relevant months and then add that it's summer in the norther hemisphere? By the way, if you have any questions about how the site works have a look at the tour and help center. Have fun!

– Secespitus
6 hours ago





Welcome to Writing.SE! Interesting question, but couldn't you just mention the relevant months and then add that it's summer in the norther hemisphere? By the way, if you have any questions about how the site works have a look at the tour and help center. Have fun!

– Secespitus
6 hours ago













Do you specify a location? If you set your story in the UK, for example, just use the season appropriate to the locale.

– Rasdashan
6 hours ago





Do you specify a location? If you set your story in the UK, for example, just use the season appropriate to the locale.

– Rasdashan
6 hours ago




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@Secespitus Thank you! That's a good solution, I might do that.

– Iamsodarncool
6 hours ago





@Secespitus Thank you! That's a good solution, I might do that.

– Iamsodarncool
6 hours ago




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@Rasdashan this is not a story, it's a piece of technical writing that will be read globally.

– Iamsodarncool
6 hours ago





@Rasdashan this is not a story, it's a piece of technical writing that will be read globally.

– Iamsodarncool
6 hours ago




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Welcome to Writing.SE lamsodarncool. We're glad to have you and to have more questions about technical writing. We ask though that you wait a full day or two before accepting an answer. While the answer you chose was excellent, the idea is to encourage more people to answer. You might end up with even more great ideas, which is the point, no? There is no time limit before you have to accept an answer and you'll always get those 2 extra points.

– Cyn
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Welcome to Writing.SE lamsodarncool. We're glad to have you and to have more questions about technical writing. We ask though that you wait a full day or two before accepting an answer. While the answer you chose was excellent, the idea is to encourage more people to answer. You might end up with even more great ideas, which is the point, no? There is no time limit before you have to accept an answer and you'll always get those 2 extra points.

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The common phrase is



northern summer.



While readers in the northern hemisphere may understand this to more narrowly mean summer in the northern parts of whichever continent they live on – as in the title of Sir John Carr's book A Northern Summer; Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804 –, readers in the southern hemisphere will think of this in the way you intend, and certainly none of them will think of Africa or Australia.



In the natural sciences, "northern summer" does have exactly the meaning you seek, as can be seen in this quote from Jaffe & Taylor's The Physics of Energy from 2018:




And when the precession index e sin 𝜛 is at a maximum, so that Northern summer coincides with perihelion while eccentricity is at a maximum, the Northern Hemisphere also receives more summer insolation.




There are countless examples for this use in the sciences, but it is maybe more interesting to note that the term is used by Australian institutions when referring to what you might call "global seasons", as in this Australian government website on international aviation (my emphasis):




The timetable summary provides information on airlines approved to operate scheduled services between Australia and its bilateral partners for the Northern Winter period from 28 October 2018 to 30 March 2019.







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There are a few simple ways to do that.



1:'the second season of the year', it feels a tad uncomfortable but it works.



2: you can simply say which month or date it is. Regardless of where you are in the world the dates stay the same* (so December is warm in the southern hemisphere while July is cold).



3: 'halfway through the year' would be Summer in the north and winter in the south.



*other than the international date line, but that is just a 1 day difference so it doesn't really make a difference.



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  • Unfortunately I can't refer to the month, I very specifically need to refer to the timeframe of June-July-August. The other options work but don't roll off the tongue nearly as nicely as "Summer 2019" :/

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  • #1 is a bit ambiguous - some will order the seasons as Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, hearkening to a life cycle (as you have done), although the calendar year has seasons ordered as Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall (in the northern hemisphere). Saying "second season of the year" would require further disambiguation to ensure that everyone interprets it the same way.

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Many global corporations just say Q1, Q2, Q3. So Q3 2019.






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    I'll note that the four financial Quarters don't necessarily line up with the solar Seasons.

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    Nor does "Q1" fall at the same time for all companies. Many end their fiscal year in June.

    – Beanluc
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  • If I read "Q3 2019" my first thought would be "what happened to questions #1 & #2?", followed by "oh wait, does Q3 mean something different in this context?", then "if Q3 means third quarter, are we talking about financial year (i.e. Jan-Mar) or calendar year (i.e. Jul-Sep)?" and finishing with "this writer is annoyingly obtuse".

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The common phrase is



northern summer.



While readers in the northern hemisphere may understand this to more narrowly mean summer in the northern parts of whichever continent they live on – as in the title of Sir John Carr's book A Northern Summer; Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804 –, readers in the southern hemisphere will think of this in the way you intend, and certainly none of them will think of Africa or Australia.



In the natural sciences, "northern summer" does have exactly the meaning you seek, as can be seen in this quote from Jaffe & Taylor's The Physics of Energy from 2018:




And when the precession index e sin 𝜛 is at a maximum, so that Northern summer coincides with perihelion while eccentricity is at a maximum, the Northern Hemisphere also receives more summer insolation.




There are countless examples for this use in the sciences, but it is maybe more interesting to note that the term is used by Australian institutions when referring to what you might call "global seasons", as in this Australian government website on international aviation (my emphasis):




The timetable summary provides information on airlines approved to operate scheduled services between Australia and its bilateral partners for the Northern Winter period from 28 October 2018 to 30 March 2019.







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The common phrase is



northern summer.



While readers in the northern hemisphere may understand this to more narrowly mean summer in the northern parts of whichever continent they live on – as in the title of Sir John Carr's book A Northern Summer; Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804 –, readers in the southern hemisphere will think of this in the way you intend, and certainly none of them will think of Africa or Australia.



In the natural sciences, "northern summer" does have exactly the meaning you seek, as can be seen in this quote from Jaffe & Taylor's The Physics of Energy from 2018:




And when the precession index e sin 𝜛 is at a maximum, so that Northern summer coincides with perihelion while eccentricity is at a maximum, the Northern Hemisphere also receives more summer insolation.




There are countless examples for this use in the sciences, but it is maybe more interesting to note that the term is used by Australian institutions when referring to what you might call "global seasons", as in this Australian government website on international aviation (my emphasis):




The timetable summary provides information on airlines approved to operate scheduled services between Australia and its bilateral partners for the Northern Winter period from 28 October 2018 to 30 March 2019.







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The common phrase is



northern summer.



While readers in the northern hemisphere may understand this to more narrowly mean summer in the northern parts of whichever continent they live on – as in the title of Sir John Carr's book A Northern Summer; Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804 –, readers in the southern hemisphere will think of this in the way you intend, and certainly none of them will think of Africa or Australia.



In the natural sciences, "northern summer" does have exactly the meaning you seek, as can be seen in this quote from Jaffe & Taylor's The Physics of Energy from 2018:




And when the precession index e sin 𝜛 is at a maximum, so that Northern summer coincides with perihelion while eccentricity is at a maximum, the Northern Hemisphere also receives more summer insolation.




There are countless examples for this use in the sciences, but it is maybe more interesting to note that the term is used by Australian institutions when referring to what you might call "global seasons", as in this Australian government website on international aviation (my emphasis):




The timetable summary provides information on airlines approved to operate scheduled services between Australia and its bilateral partners for the Northern Winter period from 28 October 2018 to 30 March 2019.







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The common phrase is



northern summer.



While readers in the northern hemisphere may understand this to more narrowly mean summer in the northern parts of whichever continent they live on – as in the title of Sir John Carr's book A Northern Summer; Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804 –, readers in the southern hemisphere will think of this in the way you intend, and certainly none of them will think of Africa or Australia.



In the natural sciences, "northern summer" does have exactly the meaning you seek, as can be seen in this quote from Jaffe & Taylor's The Physics of Energy from 2018:




And when the precession index e sin 𝜛 is at a maximum, so that Northern summer coincides with perihelion while eccentricity is at a maximum, the Northern Hemisphere also receives more summer insolation.




There are countless examples for this use in the sciences, but it is maybe more interesting to note that the term is used by Australian institutions when referring to what you might call "global seasons", as in this Australian government website on international aviation (my emphasis):




The timetable summary provides information on airlines approved to operate scheduled services between Australia and its bilateral partners for the Northern Winter period from 28 October 2018 to 30 March 2019.








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Thank you! This is exactly what I needed.

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There are a few simple ways to do that.



1:'the second season of the year', it feels a tad uncomfortable but it works.



2: you can simply say which month or date it is. Regardless of where you are in the world the dates stay the same* (so December is warm in the southern hemisphere while July is cold).



3: 'halfway through the year' would be Summer in the north and winter in the south.



*other than the international date line, but that is just a 1 day difference so it doesn't really make a difference.



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  • Unfortunately I can't refer to the month, I very specifically need to refer to the timeframe of June-July-August. The other options work but don't roll off the tongue nearly as nicely as "Summer 2019" :/

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    6 hours ago











  • #1 is a bit ambiguous - some will order the seasons as Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, hearkening to a life cycle (as you have done), although the calendar year has seasons ordered as Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall (in the northern hemisphere). Saying "second season of the year" would require further disambiguation to ensure that everyone interprets it the same way.

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    5 hours ago
















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There are a few simple ways to do that.



1:'the second season of the year', it feels a tad uncomfortable but it works.



2: you can simply say which month or date it is. Regardless of where you are in the world the dates stay the same* (so December is warm in the southern hemisphere while July is cold).



3: 'halfway through the year' would be Summer in the north and winter in the south.



*other than the international date line, but that is just a 1 day difference so it doesn't really make a difference.



edit: user10915156 has a better answer, go upvote his






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  • Unfortunately I can't refer to the month, I very specifically need to refer to the timeframe of June-July-August. The other options work but don't roll off the tongue nearly as nicely as "Summer 2019" :/

    – Iamsodarncool
    6 hours ago











  • #1 is a bit ambiguous - some will order the seasons as Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, hearkening to a life cycle (as you have done), although the calendar year has seasons ordered as Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall (in the northern hemisphere). Saying "second season of the year" would require further disambiguation to ensure that everyone interprets it the same way.

    – Nuclear Wang
    5 hours ago














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There are a few simple ways to do that.



1:'the second season of the year', it feels a tad uncomfortable but it works.



2: you can simply say which month or date it is. Regardless of where you are in the world the dates stay the same* (so December is warm in the southern hemisphere while July is cold).



3: 'halfway through the year' would be Summer in the north and winter in the south.



*other than the international date line, but that is just a 1 day difference so it doesn't really make a difference.



edit: user10915156 has a better answer, go upvote his






share|improve this answer















There are a few simple ways to do that.



1:'the second season of the year', it feels a tad uncomfortable but it works.



2: you can simply say which month or date it is. Regardless of where you are in the world the dates stay the same* (so December is warm in the southern hemisphere while July is cold).



3: 'halfway through the year' would be Summer in the north and winter in the south.



*other than the international date line, but that is just a 1 day difference so it doesn't really make a difference.



edit: user10915156 has a better answer, go upvote his







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  • Unfortunately I can't refer to the month, I very specifically need to refer to the timeframe of June-July-August. The other options work but don't roll off the tongue nearly as nicely as "Summer 2019" :/

    – Iamsodarncool
    6 hours ago











  • #1 is a bit ambiguous - some will order the seasons as Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, hearkening to a life cycle (as you have done), although the calendar year has seasons ordered as Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall (in the northern hemisphere). Saying "second season of the year" would require further disambiguation to ensure that everyone interprets it the same way.

    – Nuclear Wang
    5 hours ago



















  • Unfortunately I can't refer to the month, I very specifically need to refer to the timeframe of June-July-August. The other options work but don't roll off the tongue nearly as nicely as "Summer 2019" :/

    – Iamsodarncool
    6 hours ago











  • #1 is a bit ambiguous - some will order the seasons as Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, hearkening to a life cycle (as you have done), although the calendar year has seasons ordered as Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall (in the northern hemisphere). Saying "second season of the year" would require further disambiguation to ensure that everyone interprets it the same way.

    – Nuclear Wang
    5 hours ago

















Unfortunately I can't refer to the month, I very specifically need to refer to the timeframe of June-July-August. The other options work but don't roll off the tongue nearly as nicely as "Summer 2019" :/

– Iamsodarncool
6 hours ago





Unfortunately I can't refer to the month, I very specifically need to refer to the timeframe of June-July-August. The other options work but don't roll off the tongue nearly as nicely as "Summer 2019" :/

– Iamsodarncool
6 hours ago













#1 is a bit ambiguous - some will order the seasons as Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, hearkening to a life cycle (as you have done), although the calendar year has seasons ordered as Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall (in the northern hemisphere). Saying "second season of the year" would require further disambiguation to ensure that everyone interprets it the same way.

– Nuclear Wang
5 hours ago





#1 is a bit ambiguous - some will order the seasons as Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, hearkening to a life cycle (as you have done), although the calendar year has seasons ordered as Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall (in the northern hemisphere). Saying "second season of the year" would require further disambiguation to ensure that everyone interprets it the same way.

– Nuclear Wang
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Many global corporations just say Q1, Q2, Q3. So Q3 2019.






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    I'll note that the four financial Quarters don't necessarily line up with the solar Seasons.

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    Nor does "Q1" fall at the same time for all companies. Many end their fiscal year in June.

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  • If I read "Q3 2019" my first thought would be "what happened to questions #1 & #2?", followed by "oh wait, does Q3 mean something different in this context?", then "if Q3 means third quarter, are we talking about financial year (i.e. Jan-Mar) or calendar year (i.e. Jul-Sep)?" and finishing with "this writer is annoyingly obtuse".

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Many global corporations just say Q1, Q2, Q3. So Q3 2019.






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    I'll note that the four financial Quarters don't necessarily line up with the solar Seasons.

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  • If I read "Q3 2019" my first thought would be "what happened to questions #1 & #2?", followed by "oh wait, does Q3 mean something different in this context?", then "if Q3 means third quarter, are we talking about financial year (i.e. Jan-Mar) or calendar year (i.e. Jul-Sep)?" and finishing with "this writer is annoyingly obtuse".

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    I'll note that the four financial Quarters don't necessarily line up with the solar Seasons.

    – nick012000
    2 hours ago






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    Nor does "Q1" fall at the same time for all companies. Many end their fiscal year in June.

    – Beanluc
    2 hours ago











  • If I read "Q3 2019" my first thought would be "what happened to questions #1 & #2?", followed by "oh wait, does Q3 mean something different in this context?", then "if Q3 means third quarter, are we talking about financial year (i.e. Jan-Mar) or calendar year (i.e. Jul-Sep)?" and finishing with "this writer is annoyingly obtuse".

    – Chappo
    1 hour ago














  • 1





    I'll note that the four financial Quarters don't necessarily line up with the solar Seasons.

    – nick012000
    2 hours ago






  • 1





    Nor does "Q1" fall at the same time for all companies. Many end their fiscal year in June.

    – Beanluc
    2 hours ago











  • If I read "Q3 2019" my first thought would be "what happened to questions #1 & #2?", followed by "oh wait, does Q3 mean something different in this context?", then "if Q3 means third quarter, are we talking about financial year (i.e. Jan-Mar) or calendar year (i.e. Jul-Sep)?" and finishing with "this writer is annoyingly obtuse".

    – Chappo
    1 hour ago








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I'll note that the four financial Quarters don't necessarily line up with the solar Seasons.

– nick012000
2 hours ago





I'll note that the four financial Quarters don't necessarily line up with the solar Seasons.

– nick012000
2 hours ago




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Nor does "Q1" fall at the same time for all companies. Many end their fiscal year in June.

– Beanluc
2 hours ago





Nor does "Q1" fall at the same time for all companies. Many end their fiscal year in June.

– Beanluc
2 hours ago













If I read "Q3 2019" my first thought would be "what happened to questions #1 & #2?", followed by "oh wait, does Q3 mean something different in this context?", then "if Q3 means third quarter, are we talking about financial year (i.e. Jan-Mar) or calendar year (i.e. Jul-Sep)?" and finishing with "this writer is annoyingly obtuse".

– Chappo
1 hour ago





If I read "Q3 2019" my first thought would be "what happened to questions #1 & #2?", followed by "oh wait, does Q3 mean something different in this context?", then "if Q3 means third quarter, are we talking about financial year (i.e. Jan-Mar) or calendar year (i.e. Jul-Sep)?" and finishing with "this writer is annoyingly obtuse".

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