How we verify dates

Rules

• Official sources only. Public notices, bulletins and calendars from the exam authority. No hidden APIs, no bypassing access controls.
• No inferred dates. We never derive a date from past years or news headlines.
• Separate events. Original, rescheduled and re-examination dates are stored as separate events with their scope and source.
• Review before publishing. A date marked "awaiting human review" has been read from a notice title only and must be confirmed against the notice itself.
• Timestamped. Each date shows when it was last checked, in Indian Standard Time.

Status labels

• Confirmed: published in an official notice we have opened.
• Tentative: an indicative schedule that may change.
• Official date not announced yet: nothing found in the sources checked, as of the timestamp shown.
• Superseded / Cancelled / Historical: kept for the record, with the notice that changed it.

Automated source checking is built as a script but is not yet connected to a database, so today's dates are maintained by hand from the sources listed on the source policy.