This paper has been printing a U.S. drinks ban as still dated the 29th. [1] Saturday is September 12. The 12th is not the 29th. A dated future ban is not in force today. Print the 29th. Do not print today.

No Saturday acceleration of the 29th is in Washington copy, so the drinks ban remains dated the 29th and not today.
The 29th is still the 29th. Saturday recap that treats September 12 as the ban date is a feed, not the calendar.
No Saturday date-change is in the drinks file, so the 29th remains the dated ban.
The calendar has not jumped.
Unjumped calendars hold; Saturday's holds.

Saturday is not the 29th. Seventeen days separate the 12th from the 29th, and the calendar has not jumped.
Seventeen days out, the ban is a planning horizon, not a shelf reality. Distributors reroute; drinkers stockpile. Saturday counts down.

Counted-down days count; Saturday counts. Counting is the update. Shelves stay dry.

Dry shelves stay dry; Saturday's stay. Staying dry is the update. Countdowns continue.

Seventeen days out, the ban is a planning horizon. Distributors reroute; drinkers stockpile. Saturday does not empty the shelves.

September 12 is seventeen days shy of the dated drinks ban. Washington did not pull the 29th forward on Saturday. Distributors may plan; shelves are not under the rule today. Print the future date and leave today alone.
Saturday is seventeen days shy of the 29th. Shelves are not under the rule today. Washington did not pull the date forward.

Shelves are not under the rule today. Washington did not pull the date forward. Saturday's drinks file still waits on the 29th.

-- MAYA CALLOWAY, New York