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Week systemsCase 03 of 08

Broadcast-day cutover is not universal

The broadcast day does not always start at 06:00 local — some operations use 05:00, 02:00, or midnight, and sports/overnight feeds differ. An undeclared cutover silently reassigns early-morning events to the wrong day.

Class
Case to account for
Affects
1 conversion
01

Detection

The cutover hour is not declared on the request.

02

Mitigation

01
Declare the cutover and echo it on every result (requested vs executed).
03

Affected conversions

Broadcast day (declared cutover) ⇄ slot-set
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