Tradiksyon sa a te fèt otomatikman e li poko revize pa yon moun ki pale lang lan natifnatal.
Sous anglè: Understand · Sous anglè: Explanation
Sous anglè: What dates and blanks mean
Sous anglè: How to tell the dates on a record apart, and how to read an empty field without reading something into it.
Sous anglè: Four kinds of date
| Sous anglè: The date | Sous anglè: What it marks | Sous anglè: What it does not mean |
|---|---|---|
| Sous anglè: The official date | Sous anglè: When the thing itself happened or has to happen — a hearing, a due date, an effective date | Sous anglè: Not when it was published, and not when CityScroll saw it |
| Sous anglè: The publication date | Sous anglè: When the city put the record out | Sous anglè: Not the date of the event the record describes |
| Sous anglè: The data vintage | Sous anglè: How current the underlying source is | Sous anglè: Not a promise that nothing has been published since |
| Sous anglè: Last reviewed | Sous anglè: When an editor last checked a guide article like this one against the live site | Sous anglè: Nothing about the records themselves |
Sous anglè: Where a record has no official date, CityScroll can fall back to the publication date, and says so rather than presenting one as the other.
Sous anglè: As of a day
Sous anglè: Agency pages carry an Jiska dat la filter. Give it a date and the page keeps only the linked records whose publisher or event date falls on or before that day. The set contains records linked now. Undated records are excluded. Sharing the address reopens the same day.
Sous anglè: What it does not do is reconstruct everything CityScroll knew on that date. It filters records by their own dates. What had been collected by a given day is a different question, and this control does not answer it.
Sous anglè: Four kinds of blank
Sous anglè: An empty field is not one thing, and the difference between these is the difference between an absence of publication and an absence of an event.
- Sous anglè: Li poko parèt isit la — the city publishes this, and CityScroll has not joined it. The gap is here, not in the city's publishing.
- Sous anglè: The city does not publish this — no public, joinable release of the field is known. Where there is an obvious place it would appear if it were released, the record names it.
- Sous anglè: Not yet joined — the record exists and the connecting record does not, so the two cannot be put together with confidence.
- Sous anglè: Enkoni — the source itself carries no value.
Sous anglè: None of these is a zero. "No awards found for this agency" means none were found in the sources CityScroll reads, and several agencies publish their awards somewhere those sources do not reach. The classification behind these states is written down and kept as a document of its own.
Sous anglè: A closed window is still a real record
Sous anglè: Application windows, comment periods and hearing dates pass. When they do, the record stays, and it is still worth reading: it shows you what the process looks like, what the conditions were, and where the official notice lives.
Sous anglè: What it is not is a current invitation. A civil-service exam whose filing window has closed shows that window marked closed, and following its apply link will not get you a place. The lesson is transferable to a window that is open. The opportunity is not.
Sous anglè: An estimate is not a deadline
Sous anglè: Some pages show how long something has usually taken in the past — the gap between comments closing and a rule being adopted, for instance. That is drawn from past published records, it is labelled as an estimate, and it never appears as a confirmed date. Where a real official date exists, it replaces the estimate rather than sitting beside it.
Sous anglè: No published outcome is not a decision
Sous anglè: Many proceedings publish their result long after the event, in a different record, sometimes in a form that cannot be joined to the one you are reading. A hearing with no published outcome is not a hearing where nothing was decided. When you need the result, the official source on the record is where to go and ask.