“At date of preparation of the current Master Plan”
Does the phrase mean “at that time”?
Thank you.
I would expect it to be “At the date of…”referring to the time during which the master plan in question was being made.
Both ‘at date’ and ‘at the date of’ sound odd and incomplete to me. The reason is that ‘date’ is a precise time and for me you would need to say what that is - On 5th August, the date of preparation … Or simply at the time of … Interestingly ‘to date’ is commonly used to suggest - so far, up till now.
Well, ‘date’ doesn’t seem to be about a point of time solely: “the time during which something lasts; duration–Childhood has so short a date… period in general – at a late date\ An inquest will be held at a later date; at some future date” thefreedictionary.com/ date
Of course, the original, with master plan capitalized in particular, speaks enough of the source of the quote to me, still I wouldn’t write it off as invalid. Bordering on sub-standard English, probably. (?)
I haven’t seen ‘at date’ or ‘at the date’ used anywhere. The use of ‘as on date’ to mean ‘as on this day’ or ‘as of now’ is common in InE.
We use the phrase ‘to date’ to mean what Alan has said.
I tend to see ‘on this date’ better than ‘at date’ or ‘at the date’.