FPF Reference

    TIME — Decide what a timing claim lets you do

    Preface node heading:time-decide-what-a-timing-claim-lets-you-do:492

    What this page is

    This is generated FPF reference text from the specification preface or supporting sections. It helps interpret FPF; it is not FPF Reference product documentation.

    Methodology

    Use it to understand how the specification wants to be read, then return to a route, pattern, or work packet for active work. Cite generated IDs only when the wording changes the task decision.

    Content

    • Situation: A trend, deadline, cadence, or stale result is being used to decide what to do next.
    • Question: Which moment, rate, rhythm, or freshness relation matters, and does it support continuing, refreshing, waiting, synchronizing, or changing rhythm?
    • First useful result or honest blocker: A bounded temporal claim and supported continuation, or the exact missing window, evidence, effort, resistance, or currentness basis.
    • Start with: C.27; use G.11 only when an affected result may need scoped refresh because its basis is stale.
    • Stop or return: Stop at a state or rate reading when it supports no stronger claim. Return when the window, evidence, currentness, or intended use changes.

    Last Updated: 2026-09-03 — upstream FPF commit b999972c (github.com/ailev/FPF)