# Whittle down end date: 2026? Maybe ask for me a date during goal creation? **URL:** \ **Category:** Bugabee\ **Created:** [May 7, 2016, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/whittle-down-end-date-2026-maybe-ask-for-me-a-date-during-goal-creation/2167 "2016-05-07T07:43:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![philip](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/philip/32/1505_2.png) [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 11:24am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/whittle-down-end-date-2026-maybe-ask-for-me-a-date-during-goal-creation/2167/2 "2016-05-14T11:24:23Z")
[Striving goals](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/confused-why-goal-not-marked-as-complete/2108/5) should not have an end date, imho. _(Aside: the current value for ‘no end date’ is the end of unixtime in 2038, which may be nicely correlated with the end of the world as we know it!)_ We used to use one-year as the default period for a goal. Seems that it might now be ten years. Flip side of that default is the fine practice of trying a goal on for size, in which case 30 days is a nice number… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/whittle-down-end-date-2026-maybe-ask-for-me-a-date-during-goal-creation/2167)._