You can use arg(1)
in a piece of custom code to get the current node id (but only if it is a node you're on). See http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes%21bootstrap.inc/function/arg/7. For instance you could easily embed your view in a template of your choice or a within a theme function like this:
views_embed_view('name_of_your_view', 'display_name', arg(1));
where the third parameter is the argument, the node id of your current (timeperiod) node. See http://api.drupal.org/api/views/views.module/function/views_embed_view/7.
To just place a link on that timeperiod node to that page (generated by your view) you would probably use a preprocess function in conjunction with a template (print if set). The possibilities there are uncountable, so you might need to provide further informations, where to place the link. But basically it can be achieved by using `arg(1)'.