Hi @devinat1! We’d love to support changing your deadline for everything, so it’s really helpful to hear it’s grating on you – thanks for letting us know. At the moment, I think there’s a worry that if we implement it, it’s going to catch some people out, because of the way it works.
What happens is that a non-midnight deadline changes the time your goal considers midnight. For example, if you changed your deadline to 10pm, it’d be 25th April until 10pm… and then after 10pm, it’d be the 26th. However, you can’t do that kind of thing on data sources like Fitbit or Focusmate, so they keep on reporting the actual calendar date to us. Anything you do after 10pm still gets counted under the 25th – on the wrong day in Beeminder, in other words.
That’s not so bad for deadlines that happen earlier than midnight, I think? Though it might be confusing! But it’d be really misleading on deadlines after midnight: you wouldn’t derail at midnight, but you wouldn’t be able to add any more data for the 25th after midnight; no matter what you do, it’d count for the 26th, and it wouldn’t be able to stop you derailing.
So it’ll take some head-scratching for us to figure out a way to make this work, but it’s important for us to hear that it’s something folks are interested in seeing!