On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Aaron Goldfein wrote: >> But >> game custom should also be irrelevant as, in the past, when <as of >> this message> was used, there was no rule requiring the IADoP to list >> the date of each officer's most recent reports. > > I support. R2138/9 now requires the date of the "last" report, and the > tradition of <time of last report> (as opposed to <as of current report>) > is that the "last" report is not in fact the current one but the previous > one. That is also a common-sense use of "last". The phrase and its > abbreviation TOLR is quite ancient - at least to 2001 - and has always > meant the previous one, not the current one. The explicit legislative > addition should come ahead of precedent. -G.
Addendum: it goes back at least to the very first Official Report in our archive; see the "recent events" log of the Nov-02 Payroll Clerk report. -G.
