Deadline time zone
The time of day and the zone a deadline actually falls at. A date alone is not a deadline: 5:00 pm Eastern on a Friday is nine hours earlier than midnight Pacific, and portals close on the stated instant rather than on the stated day.
Part of the GrantTrove grant funding glossary — one entry for every field the catalogue stores.
Also called Closing time · Submission cut-off
In detail
Federal notices usually state a time and a zone. State and foundation calls frequently state only a date, which leaves the applicant to guess between the start and the end of it.
Portals also apply their own rules — some stop accepting uploads before the stated time, some queue and timestamp on receipt — and those rules are not in the notice.
Against the date we store
`deadline_at` is a timestamp, and `deadline_note` carries the source’s own wording about it. Where a source published only a date, we do not invent a time of day to fill the timestamp — the note says what the source said, and a reader who needs the hour is sent to the notice rather than given a manufactured one.
How GrantTrove stores it
- `deadline_at`, `deadline_type` and `deadline_note` are separate fields, so a qualified deadline stays qualified rather than being flattened to a date.
- Dates are rendered in mono with tabular figures in a fixed format everywhere in the product, and never as a relative phrase like "soon" or "closing shortly".
Common questions
Do you show the closing time?
Where the source published one. Where it published only a date, the note says so rather than a time being invented.
Which time zone applies?
The funder’s, as stated in the notice. Portals can be stricter than the notice.
Do you send reminders?
Alerts can tell you when a record you follow changes, including its deadline.