Why does Beeminder threaten +1 due in 1 day when there's still 10 days to the bright red line?

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EDIT: Ok dum dum me I figured this out, but will leave this post up for feedback to beeminder, inc. I was misinterpreting when “today” starts on the graph. Perhaps beeminder could be improved to more clearly mark “today” on the graph.

I have a goal to check my car’s oil once a week. (I just now changed it to 2 times per month, but that’s irrelevant to the question.) The graph suggests I need to do “+1 due in 1d 13h or pay $0”. Why would this be the case when I have so many buffer days? And why is today’s (purple) line so long?

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Hmm, interesting! What were you reading as “today”, then? The line itself should be showing you where today is: the end of the horizontal line, with the arrowhead, is ‘today’. (There’s also the x-axis itself, which shows you Jul 7th is right below where the tip of the arrow is, but that’s a bit less obvious – for me, at least.) It’d be really useful to know what you were misreading!

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I was reading the June 28 data point as today, and thinking this was one of my goals with a lot of buffer.