# Mother of Bugs: Two Consecutive Days In The Red

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/mother-of-bugs-two-consecutive-days-in-the-red/4250>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [August 19, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/mother-of-bugs-two-consecutive-days-in-the-red/4250 "2018-08-19T23:06:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/mother-of-bugs-two-consecutive-days-in-the-red/4250/7 "2020-01-15T16:23:18Z")

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> [@zedmango](#):
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> What’s the current derail condition, and how are retroactive data edits handled?

If you cross the deadline and what’s-now-yesterday is still in the red, that’s a derail. That rule is applied universally / consistently / naively, so editing past data that causes yesterday to be red will also derail you.

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