documents
Data license: Public Domain (U.S. Government data) · Data source: Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API
- comment_end_date
- A FULL UTC INSTANT, not a calendar date, despite the column name: '2026-08-29T03:59:59Z' is 11:59:59 PM EASTERN on 2026-08-28. Federal comment periods close at 11:59:59 PM Eastern, so the UTC calendar date is ONE DAY LATER than the official deadline on every end-of-day close — 444,689 of the 444,690 populated rows (measured 2026-09-06). Convert to America/New_York before presenting a deadline, and compare with julianday(comment_end_date) > julianday('now'): a plain > datetime('now') is a TEXT comparison between two different formats and keeps already-closed dockets matching for up to ~20 hours. The sibling column on open_comments.documents WAS corrected to an Eastern calendar date (queue #498); this one is unchanged and still an instant — the two databases do not agree on grain. (queue #644)
- comment_start_date
- A FULL UTC INSTANT, not a calendar date, despite the column name — same grain as comment_end_date on this table. Convert to America/New_York before presenting it. (queue #644)
35,428 rows where posted_year = 2026 sorted by posted_date descending
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agency_id >30
document_type 5
- Supporting & Related Material 20,242
- Other 10,261
- Notice 3,535
- Rule 767
- Proposed Rule 623
posted_year 1
- 2026 · 35,428 ✖
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CREATE TABLE documents (
id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
agency_id TEXT,
docket_id TEXT REFERENCES dockets(id),
title TEXT,
document_type TEXT,
subtype TEXT,
posted_date TEXT,
posted_year INTEGER,
posted_month INTEGER,
comment_start_date TEXT,
comment_end_date TEXT,
last_modified TEXT,
fr_doc_num TEXT,
open_for_comment INTEGER,
withdrawn INTEGER,
object_id TEXT
);
CREATE INDEX idx_docs_agency ON documents(agency_id);
CREATE INDEX idx_docs_docket ON documents(docket_id);
CREATE INDEX idx_docs_date ON documents(posted_date);
CREATE INDEX idx_docs_year ON documents(posted_year);
CREATE INDEX idx_docs_type ON documents(document_type);
CREATE INDEX idx_docs_frnum ON documents(fr_doc_num);
CREATE INDEX idx_docs_comment_end ON documents(comment_end_date) WHERE comment_end_date IS NOT NULL AND withdrawn = 0;