Yes, I've seen that. "Jay in Shanghai" on Twitter is a good guy, but he's hardly the definative source on how Tesla defines their End-of-Quarter. We need better.
I searched the latest
2020 10-K and Telsa's
Amended and Restated Bylaws and the
2021 10-Q for the terms "Pacific", "Time", and "Local" but found no relevant results. It should be written somewhere in corporate documents however. Perhaps
@st_lopes has some suggestions?
I'm quite sure this issue has come up before, it's just too infrequent for people to retain an accurate recall (vs. applying 'experience' from other companies). Specifically, and prior to the Giga Shanghai era, people used to wonder if a car delivered on the East Coast at 2:30 a.m. local time counts toward the end-of-quarter total. I recall the answer was 'yes', but again it would be better to locate the source document or policy.
Personally, I'd be surprised if Tesla didn't define a universal time/cut-off for their end-of-quarter: there are no '
Days' on Mars, only '
Sols'. Bot's will be one of Tesla's 1st Martian products, I think.
Local time is meaningless in a moving timeframe. I think time has to be based on the mothership.
Cheers!