Falsifian wrote:
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The time at which an intent to do something without objection
becomes resolvable is a deadline.
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I find that the only sensible interpretations of "deadline" are
a) a time limit after which doing X is too late to satisfy a SHALL
b) a time limit after which doing X is too late to be POSSIBLE
which are respectively addressed by the examples listed in R2614. The
attempted use cases here are
c) a time limit before which doing X is too early to be POSSIBLE
d) a soft time limit after which doing X may be too late to be
effective, based on whether someone else did Y in between
both of which, while equally sensible concepts, including them in the
definition of "deadline" would be too much of a stretch. FALSE.
Isn't 4 days a deadline for objectors to make their voice heard? That
is like your sense (b) above. You can object after 5 days but it might
not work if the performer acts before that.
That's d). You can object after 5 days and it might work if the
performer doesn't act before that. It's definitely closer to the usual
definition of "deadline" than c) is, but still not there IMO.