# Goal date should support infinity

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/goal-date-should-support-infinity/3368>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [July 22, 2017, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/goal-date-should-support-infinity/3368 "2017-07-22T04:54:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/goal-date-should-support-infinity/3368/3 "2017-07-24T16:00:40Z")

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Agreed. We’ve had [discussions like this before](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/confused-why-goal-not-marked-as-complete/2108/6).

Though some people like trying on a goal for a set period, with the goal date being an evaluation point rather than a real-world deadline.

Worse, there are some cases in which autoratchet/retroratchet will change the end date. If that end date is something in the real world like an exam or a conference speech, that’s super-bad.

A world in which dates are either fully-honoured or effectively-infinite would be better than the status quo.

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