Comments by Ravi LVS (Top 12 by date)

Anyway, I will rewrite function to accept starting month of 1st quarter as argument and post it soon.

I removed it intentionally, because it is creating some ambiguity in understanding purpose. The result of the same function varies from one country to country.

Reason for my vote of 5
Good, very helpful to create high performance websites. As author mentioned, opening connection to database multiple times will create a bit overload on the system. In ado.net there is a feature called connection pooling will lessen this overhead when we open and close same connection.

- Kunal
No No. Most of the times, every one needs quarter of the date for financial results. If a company is declaring its 1st quarter performance means it is for Apr May & Jun, not Jan Feb & Mar. I hope you are clarified.

From financial year point of view, Apr May & Jun are to be treated as 1st quarter. In other areas quarter number is very less important or not at all.

Very few countries use Jan Feb & Mar as 1st quarter.
Go to this link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_year.

Quarter of a date varies from country to country and most of the countries use April May & Jun as 1st quarter.

Whatever the result the function may return, it is wrong to other. One single function will not suffice the requirement. Everybody has to implement their own functionality in this case. I just taken the example for India.

Further, there is not much logic involved in that function. Luc simply cannot say there is a bug in the function. That is why I responded like that.

- Luc Pattyn
In India
1st qtr = Apr, May, Jun,
2nd Qtr = Jul, Aug, Sep,
3rd Qtr = Oct, Nov, Dec,
4th Qtr = Jan, Feb, Mar.

If you have found any bug, you would have confirmed the issue with the author. Nobody is such foolish here. At first, I have written the first two functions only. I added the third function only on the request of Kunal Chowdhury who is also an Indian.

You simply spoiled the others interest by voting negatively. I don't mind even if nobody votes. But receiving the things in negative way really bothers.

Thank you, I added the function as requested by you.

Reason for my vote of 5
Good for beginners who generally leave these things while developing web sites.