How many minutes are there in a fiscal quarter?

Answer 1

Fiscal quarters are usually defined as three-month periods from the start of one month to the end of the next-but-one month. However,

• months have different numbers of days,
• companies can chose when their fiscal year begins,
• in many northern countries daylight saving [Summer] time starts in March so that March is an hour shorter than 31 days and, similarly, October is an hour longer.

. As a result, the length of a fiscal quarter can take a number of different values between 128100 and 132540 minutes.