A random deadline to complete a task, which has no
real world consequences. For example, your
office sets Monday as the deadline on all
canned food donations for charity , but the box just sits there until Friday, which is the actual day they planned on taking it to the food bank.
"Hey
bro, did you get your weekly report done for the big boss? He needs it today!"
"Naaah, it's only
Wednesday.
Wednesday's an artificial deadline, because he doesn't even send those reports to corporate for another week."