On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > It's because the Intent is, in fact, in the words of R1769, simply > required before the dependent action attempt. The fact that it is > required 4 days before means that it's also required 3 days before, > 2 days before, etc. or any time between 0-4 days before. This comes > from the way it's written, as a range "at least 4" and "at most 14" > "days earlier." Earlier than what? Not earlier than 4 days earlier > (that's a double earlier which isn't in the holiday rule) Rather, > earlier than the action attempt!
I disagree... if you require that an action be done four days earlier than X, you are not requiring that it be done "prior to" X, but prior to (four days before X). If I advise you, new to the Agoran ruleset, that you have to resolve dependent actions earlier than the time you perform them, and then you find out that you have to resolve them _four days_ earlier, you would consider my advice incorrect, not merely vague. "Four days earlier" is not a specific case of "earlier".
