past date

The past date specified is not earlier than the current date.

All my past date books are the same.

Historical records employ well-known events to mark (fixed) past dates.

The past date specified is in an invalid format.

Joseph Rubal had been going over past dates.

Dr. Kubiatowicz predicts that software problems dealing with past dates will become commonplace.

A news calendar on the site also informs people of coming and past dates of changes in airline routes or aircraft types and upcoming events.

All electronic data was recorded and backed up-Treesa could pull up streams of electronic records from any past date on Selene.

In New York, he manages to do so, thanks to a good friend and past date to a school dance named Betsy (Judy Garland).

Every New Years Day (Getheny Thern) the year just past becomes the year "one-ago," and every past date is increased by one.

The adverb back still means in, to, or toward a past time, and the adjective back is still defined as of a past date; not current; but I continually find examples of backward writing.

For example, to compute the elapsed time in seconds between two given UTC past dates requires consulting a table of leap seconds, which needs to be updated whenever a new leap second is announced.

The title character states that Jon Stewart "tried to deceive people into thinking" that the book's phony Fillmore was a real one by putting a past date (October 1, 1998) next to the fake strip.

Chemical Plant Cost indexes are dimensionless numbers employed to updating capital cost required to erect a chemical plant from a past date to a later time, following changes in the value of money due to inflation and deflation.

The laws removed regarded militia duty dating back to the post-Civil War era, the consolidation of the Denver Public School District which has already occurred, and references to gender and past dates in the Old-Age Pension Fund.

Dates are pre-determined and have been donated by various restaurants or venues throughout New York City (past dates have included rock climbing, trapeze lessons, a tasting at a winery & VIP tickets to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon).

An example of this is Windows XP's feature of being able to restore operating system settings from a past date (before data corruption occurred, for example), or PostgreSQL's feature of being able to view a database table and its data as it was at a particular date in the past.