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Poll: Draft by "End of Day" Means 5 pm, 8 pm, midnight, 9 am next day?

Also--your time or their time?
Alcoholic potus
  01/05/26
your time eod 12am
razzmatazz pink indirect expression
  01/05/26
...
Curious Doobsian Church
  01/05/26
Why midnight? Assume you don't have a reason to think the pe...
Alcoholic potus
  01/05/26
“Assume you don't have a reason to think the people wa...
Effete arousing step-uncle's house patrolman
  01/05/26
eod = midnight cob = 1700
Garnet unhinged yarmulke lay
  01/05/26
...
shimmering painfully honest elastic band
  01/05/26
Cr
Crimson sickened nursing home
  01/05/26
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histrionic market background story
  01/05/26
"When it's done"
hairraiser toaster cuckoldry
  01/05/26
What if it's not done until after EOD?
Alcoholic potus
  01/05/26
Will flip this to you ASAP, thanks
hairraiser toaster cuckoldry
  01/05/26
...
wonderful submissive stag film
  01/05/26
depends on the context. court filing? midnight. in-house? li...
marvelous double fault den
  01/05/26
Court filing is easy insofar as there will be a Local Rule. ...
Alcoholic potus
  01/05/26
it depends on your office culture and who else is involved
marvelous double fault den
  01/05/26
Biglaw trannies are also midnight, but 10 pm is far more app...
Vigorous Naked Field
  01/05/26
Setting an artificial 4 pm deadline is wild. If someone want...
Alcoholic potus
  01/05/26
I’m absolutely swamped with poasts to make
Frisky dingle berry halford
  01/05/26
Yes. The point of the 4 pm deadline is for them to pretend t...
Vigorous Naked Field
  01/05/26
2pm if a scientist needs to review it
mauve toilet seat
  01/05/26
...
shimmering painfully honest elastic band
  01/05/26
...
Olive Lascivious Property Legend
  01/05/26
...
Carmine mischievous cruise ship
  01/05/26
usually means "within the hour"
cerise vivacious foreskin dragon
  01/05/26
9 or 10pm
adventurous generalized bond incel
  01/05/26
Why those times? At 9, I might just be logging back on after...
Alcoholic potus
  01/05/26
It generally means 5 or 6pm in the requestor’s time zo...
180 khaki trump supporter giraffe
  01/05/26
What is requestor is in Europe? Or you're on west coast, req...
Alcoholic potus
  01/05/26
in house it means 5 to 6pm. biglaw it means midnight.
Ebony angry volcanic crater
  01/05/26
Cr.
trip deranged personal credit line business firm
  01/05/26
...
Clear up-to-no-good ladyboy son of senegal
  01/05/26
More precisely in biglaw, end of day means “before you...
Carmine mischievous cruise ship
  01/05/26
There’s going to be more punctuation at the end of tha...
180 khaki trump supporter giraffe
  01/06/26
lol
Carmine mischievous cruise ship
  01/07/26
At the end of the day, what does it matter?
supple tanning salon
  01/05/26
close of business means by 5pm, but end of day is anytime by...
Salmon alpha
  01/06/26
You got it reversed
Carmine mischievous cruise ship
  01/07/26
...
Carmine mischievous cruise ship
  01/13/26


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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:13 PM
Author: Alcoholic potus

Also--your time or their time?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564535)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:15 PM
Author: razzmatazz pink indirect expression

your time eod 12am

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564546)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:18 PM
Author: Curious Doobsian Church



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564549)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:20 PM
Author: Alcoholic potus

Why midnight? Assume you don't have a reason to think the people waiting on the draft are going to do another turn in the wee hours of the morning. So, at that point, what's the differences with doing (and billing for) a few more hours and sending it at 3 am?

And at that point, what's the difference with waiting to send it at 7 or 8 am, before the next workday starts?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564561)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 4:50 PM
Author: Effete arousing step-uncle's house patrolman

“Assume you don't have a reason to think the people waiting on the draft are going to do another turn in the wee hours of the morning.”

what kind of penny-ante hobbyists are you working across from?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564839)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:18 PM
Author: Garnet unhinged yarmulke lay

eod = midnight

cob = 1700

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564552)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:20 PM
Author: shimmering painfully honest elastic band



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564562)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:51 PM
Author: Crimson sickened nursing home

Cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564673)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:53 PM
Author: histrionic market background story



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564678)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:19 PM
Author: hairraiser toaster cuckoldry

"When it's done"



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564555)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:21 PM
Author: Alcoholic potus

What if it's not done until after EOD?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564564)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:26 PM
Author: hairraiser toaster cuckoldry

Will flip this to you ASAP, thanks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564579)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 11:45 PM
Author: wonderful submissive stag film



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:20 PM
Author: marvelous double fault den

depends on the context. court filing? midnight. in-house? like 2pm.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564560)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:23 PM
Author: Alcoholic potus

Court filing is easy insofar as there will be a Local Rule.

For other work, I don't want to scramble to get things done by 2 pm--especially because it means I might get the next round of comments back the same day. I want to chill while things build up throughout the day, then scramble through several things between about 4:30 and 5:20.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564569)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:38 PM
Author: marvelous double fault den

it depends on your office culture and who else is involved

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564624)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:25 PM
Author: Vigorous Naked Field

Biglaw trannies are also midnight, but 10 pm is far more appreciated because it lets others bill easy hours before bed. Inhouse 2 pm is only west coast with east coast audience but most people specify “COB” and that means get it out by 4 your time so others have the option of reviewing before they leave to pick up their kids or after they put their kids to bed (they won’t actually review or respond for at least a week).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564576)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:31 PM
Author: Alcoholic potus

Setting an artificial 4 pm deadline is wild. If someone wants to review it that day, they should say so and specify a time. People get jammed up with meetings, multiple agreements to review, poasts to make, etc.

Absolutely CR re "they won’t actually review or respond for at least a week," btw. There are two times for responses--5 minutes after you send and late next week.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564589)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:39 PM
Author: Frisky dingle berry halford

I’m absolutely swamped with poasts to make

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564630)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:42 PM
Author: Vigorous Naked Field

Yes. The point of the 4 pm deadline is for them to pretend that they are hardworking and for you to pass your own self-imposed shit test. But the logic of this makes sense the more exposure you have to senior execs/SVPs and other managers of managers who are running large organizations. Most of what they do is at least partially performative.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564645)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:25 PM
Author: mauve toilet seat

2pm if a scientist needs to review it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564577)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:39 PM
Author: shimmering painfully honest elastic band



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564629)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 5:06 PM
Author: Olive Lascivious Property Legend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564881)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 10:45 PM
Author: Carmine mischievous cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49565722)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:35 PM
Author: cerise vivacious foreskin dragon

usually means "within the hour"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564613)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:44 PM
Author: adventurous generalized bond incel

9 or 10pm

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564647)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 3:54 PM
Author: Alcoholic potus

Why those times? At 9, I might just be logging back on after the kids go to bed. So, getting the draft out before I go to bed matches the EOD and my schedule better.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564680)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 4:47 PM
Author: 180 khaki trump supporter giraffe

It generally means 5 or 6pm in the requestor’s time zone if the person is either important or a client. In other cases it means before they log on the next morning.

Worst thing you can do is send it early enough to get comments back that night, after you’ve rushed to get it out, screwed off online for 90 mins to recuperate, and finally turned to the other work you were supposed to get done yesterday/today/last week.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49564828)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 6:09 PM
Author: Alcoholic potus

What is requestor is in Europe? Or you're on west coast, requestor is on east coast?

In either of those cases, it should mean before they log on the next morning.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49565016)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 8:29 PM
Author: Ebony angry volcanic crater

in house it means 5 to 6pm. biglaw it means midnight.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49565377)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 10:26 PM
Author: trip deranged personal credit line business firm

Cr.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49565691)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 11:44 PM
Author: Clear up-to-no-good ladyboy son of senegal



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49565821)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 10:18 PM
Author: Carmine mischievous cruise ship

More precisely in biglaw, end of day means “before you go to bed and before I wake up.” But you better gird your ass if you misjudge that and get a “Where is the draft?” at 4 am.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49565681)



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Date: January 6th, 2026 8:13 PM
Author: 180 khaki trump supporter giraffe

There’s going to be more punctuation at the end of that 4am email

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49567806)



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Date: January 7th, 2026 3:05 PM
Author: Carmine mischievous cruise ship

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49569664)



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Date: January 5th, 2026 11:45 PM
Author: supple tanning salon

At the end of the day, what does it matter?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49565824)



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Date: January 6th, 2026 8:15 PM
Author: Salmon alpha

close of business means by 5pm, but end of day is anytime by midnight for biglaw and by tomorrow dawn for mid-tier firms.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49567815)



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Date: January 7th, 2026 3:06 PM
Author: Carmine mischievous cruise ship

You got it reversed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49569669)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 10:42 PM
Author: Carmine mischievous cruise ship



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5817621&forum_id=2Ã#49587793)