Dateline or deadline?

Dateline or deadline?

source :

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/dateline.html


The word “dateline” is used today mainly to label the bit of text at the top of a printed news story that indicates where and—often, but not always—when it was written. For instance, after a headline about events in Kenya, the dateline might read “NAIROBI, Kenya, June 2, 2010.”

Probably because this rather obscure word has been popularized by its use for the name of an NBC television news show, some people confuse it with “deadline,” which is most often the date by which something must be accomplished. You can miss deadlines, meet deadlines, or have to deal with short deadlines— but not datelines.



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source

http://www.goodenglish.org.sg/improve/ask-about-english/dateline-or-deadline/


Dateline or deadline?

Is there a difference between these two words?


QUESTION

Is there any difference between “dateline” and “deadline”? Are these words interchangeable?

ANSWER

“Dateline” refers to a line in a newspaper article that gives the date and the place of origin.

“Deadline“, however, refers to the date or time a task needs to be completed.

Given the different meanings, we should not use these words interchangeably.