Fixed deadline
A single stated close date and time, including its time zone. Stored to the minute where the source states one, and rendered in a fixed format — never as "closing soon", which cannot be cited and quietly ages into a false statement.
Part of the GrantTrove grant funding glossary — one entry for every field the catalogue stores.
Also called Closing date · Application deadline · Due date
In detail
Time zones matter more than they should. A federal notice closing at 5:00 pm Eastern is closing at 2:00 pm on the west coast, and a deadline stored without its zone is a deadline that will eventually be missed by someone reading it three time zones away.
Deadlines move. Agencies extend, and portals sometimes update a closing date without changing anything else visible on the page. That is why the check date on a record matters more than the page’s own last-updated stamp.
Against a relative date
We never render a deadline as "in 3 days" or "closing soon". A relative date is unciteable, it is wrong the moment a page is cached, and it cannot be compared across records. Dates are mono, tabular and absolute everywhere on the site.
How GrantTrove stores it
- Deadlines are stored with their time and zone where the source states them, and rendered in one fixed format across every page and export.
- A record whose deadline has passed is kept with its date visible rather than deleted, because a closed program is still evidence about the next cycle.
Common questions
What if the deadline has a time but no time zone?
We store what the source states and do not assume a zone. Where the zone is absent, the notice is the page to read before submitting.
Do you alert me before a deadline?
Deadline alerts are a paid-tier feature. The deadline itself is a core field and is readable without an account.
What happens to a record after its deadline passes?
It stays, marked closed, on a 180-day recheck window. Past cycles are how you plan for the next one.