Newsletter scheduler UI does not allow changing send date to today

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Summary

The newsletter scheduling UI ("The Prompt") does not allow a user to change an already-scheduled send date to the current day — only future dates appear to be selectable/valid.

Steps to reproduce

1. Schedule a newsletter send for a future date (e.g., next Tuesday).
2. Attempt to edit the scheduled date to today's date.
3. The UI does not accept/apply the change.

Expected behavior

A user should be able to reschedule a pending newsletter send to the current day, e.g. to align send timing with a same-day announcement or launch.

Actual behavior

The date picker or save action rejects/ignores same-day date selection, blocking the reschedule.

Impact

Blocked a time-sensitive send that needed to go out same-day to coincide with a product launch announcement. Required manual admin workaround outside the scheduling UI.

Reported via

Support escalation — newsletter owner needed same-day reschedule and could not complete it through the UI.

[bokelley]

Thanks for the detailed report and reproduction steps!

Triage

Classification: Bug (unconfirmed — see questions below)
Bucket(s): admin / ops tools
Status: clarify

What the experts said:

• internal-tools-strategist: No editable date picker exists in the newsletter scheduling UI — the send window is computed from cadence logic and displayed as a read-only chip. The same-day send path is the "Approve and send now" / "Send Now" button; the issue is likely a discoverability gap rather than a date-validation bug.
• dx-expert: Confirms there is no /reschedule endpoint and no edition_date edit path in admin-routes.ts. "Send Now" (/editions/:id/send-now) exists and is the correct same-day mechanism, but it may not have been visible or recognized. A full "reschedule to date" feature would be medium complexity (ET timezone math, DB unique-key collision handling, approved-state integrity).

My take: The codebase has no date picker to constrain — the send window is cadence-driven. Two paths diverge here: (a) "Send Now" was available but not found → UX/copy fix, low effort; (b) "Send Now" was absent or failed → potentially a different, higher-priority bug. Two quick answers would unlock the right fix.

1. When you attempted to reschedule, did you see a date input field you tried to interact with — or were you looking for a reschedule control that didn't seem to exist?
2. Was a "Send Now" or "Approve and send now" button visible on the edition at that point? If yes, what happened when you clicked it?

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Triaged by Claude Code. Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016eeK84RJiYyPSpAb3yCK87

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[bokelley]

Resolved by #6659, which allows drafts scheduled for today to be sent immediately. Revalidated the same-day admin send path while preparing #6698 (newsletter plus billing targeted suite: 24/24 passing).