A time out of order in a day's schedule
time-orderon by defaultJapanese / English
One time out of order in an itinerary or a day's programme
Example
How to fix
Check the time. Correct it if it is a typo, or move the item if the order is wrong.
Why it matters
In a list or a table whose items start with a time, such as an itinerary or a programme, one time earlier than the item before it makes the reader check whether it is a typo or a swapped row, and someone turns up at the wrong time. A day's schedule runs from the earliest time, so a time against that order is pointed out. A day ends where a date heading or the date at the start of a row changes. A time past midnight, such as 0:15 after 23:30, is read as the next day's when it is marked so (+1, "next day"). Two times whose labels fix their order, such as doors open and the show's start, or meeting time and departure, are compared too, since doors that open after the start leave the audience outside when the show begins.
What it does not flag
A run of only two times, a list where no more than half of the times are in order (not a schedule), and times written inside a sentence rather than at the start of an item are not compared. A time more than half a day earlier than the one before it (0:15 after 23:30) is read as past midnight even without a mark. A "local time" mark, or a change of time zone, starts a new day. Two labelled times are not compared when they fall on different dates (a date heading between them), when their time-zone marks differ, when the later one is more than half a day back (past midnight), or when a line holds two times (a range). With two shows, each start is compared with the doors written nearest to it.
Turning it off or relaxing it
Technical details
- Layer
- L3
- Status
- stable
- Severity
- warning
- 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).
| strict | error |
|---|---|
| normal | warning |
| relaxed | info |
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, legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, speech/address, speech/transcript
- Turned off by the genre in
- literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play
Message
{time} breaks the order of the times around it (after {previous})
{time} breaks the order of the times after it (before {next})
{earlier_label} at {time} is later than {later_label} at {later}, which should come after it
This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/time-order.yaml