A registration deadline after the event
deadline-after-eventon by defaultJapanese / English
A sign-up or RSVP deadline that falls after the event itself
Example
How to fix
Check which is right, the event date or the deadline, and correct the other.
Why it matters
When the registration deadline or the RSVP date of an invitation is after the event itself, a reader who signs up in time arrives after it is over. It happens when last year's invitation is reused and only one of the dates is changed. The date on a line starting with an event-date word (Date, When) and holding a time of day is read as the event's date, and a date in a sentence with a registration word and a deadline word (register by, Booking deadline) after it is pointed out. In a trip notice, the first day on a Departure or Dates line is read as the departure even without a time, and a payment deadline after it (Payment due, a Due by column) is pointed out too.
What it does not flag
A Date line without a time of day, a date without its year, and a sentence with two dates are not compared. With several event-date lines, the latest event is used. Only a sentence with both a registration word (register, RSVP, booking) and a deadline word (by, deadline, closes) is read, so a survey deadline or the date the slides go up is not compared, and a sentence that also names a survey, a payment or the slides is left alone. A payment deadline is read only in a ticket order, whose title names a ticket and which never mentions an invoice, since an invoice is paid after the event. A trip's payment deadline is read only in a notice whose title names a trip (trip, camp) and which never mentions an invoice, and is compared with the departure; a billing period or a delivery date is never the event. It is off in the legal, docs, academic, literature and speech genres.
Turning it off or relaxing it
Technical details
- Layer
- L3
- Status
- stable
- Severity
- error
- Languages
- Japanese and English
- Suited to
- business, technical, blog, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech
- Reads from the document
- dates
Levels
Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).
| normal | error |
|---|---|
| relaxed | warning |
This rule has no limit to count to. A level sets how a finding is marked: relaxed keeps the finding and marks it a step lower.
By genre
- Runs by default in
- technical/spec, technical/readme, blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes
- Turned off by the genre in
- legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play, speech/address, speech/transcript
Message
The registration deadline {deadline} is after the event on {event}
The payment deadline {deadline} is after the event on {event}
This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/deadline-after-event.yaml