ADM.3:5.4 - The date comparison within request examination

While examining Mara’s 25 September request, the handler compares that date with the appointment’s 1 October effective date. This comparison performs the temporal part of checking the required appointment condition. Through that check, the handler performs part of examining the access request. The supplied rule, Mara’s appointment and the time of intended use connect those operations.

A handler might instead compare 25 September with the directory’s 22 September entry. The calendar comparison can be correct while failing to answer whether the appointment condition holds. The repair is to recover which event and date the applicable rule makes decisive, then repeat the temporal check using that basis. Reuse the already adequate appointment decision. Someone who cannot make this rule-to-fact connection needs to learn that operation or obtain a qualified interpretation they can use in the check.

The reservation case in §5.2 changes the connection: its supplied rule makes registration at 13:00 decisive. Copying the appointment case’s treatment of registration would now produce the wrong condition. Being able to compare times does not supply the ability to identify their institutional meaning.

These are connected descriptions of the handler’s work; count that work once. A permission decision can subsequently use the temporal conclusion. The archive provider’s configuration and the researcher’s work with the document have their own relations to the handling; neither explains how the handler performs this check.