The phrase "advancing the date" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of moving a scheduled date to an earlier time.
Example: "We are considering advancing the date of the meeting to accommodate everyone's schedule."
Alternatives: "moving the date forward" or "rescheduling to an earlier date."
For some years the Association has been in favor of advancing the date of Thanksgiving.
One effect of the cutoff was to increase the flow of water out of the Mississippi and into the Atchafalaya, advancing the date of ultimate capture.
But a prominent constitutional lawyer, Ricardo Monner Sans, suggested tonight that by advancing the date of the vote, Mr. Duhalde has in effect blocked Mr. Menem, who left office in December 1999 after a decade in power, from running again.
The outright hostility from critics also stems from DCMS's willingness to rubber-stamp new BBC online and digital services with a view to advancing the date for an analogue switch off.
Another option under consideration is advancing the date of full national elections now scheduled under the American plan for the end of 2005 to a point earlier in the year.
Advancing the date on which half the deputies and a third of the senators must reapply for their jobs should stem the flow of former friends across the floors of both houses.
That is precisely the kind of attention that California's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, had in mind when he signed legislation to advance the date of his state's primary.
New Hampshire may move up its primary as a result — possibly even to this year — and in South Carolina, Republican officials said they, too, would advance the date of their primary.
In July 2011, as Spain's economy continued to flounder, Zapatero announced that he would advance the date of the next general election from March 2012 to November 2011.
"As soon as you advance the date of diagnosis with any screening test, you will improve the apparent survival," said Dr. Barnett Kramer, who is associate director for disease prevention at the National Institutes of Health.
K.S.M. claims he did not inform Atta or the other conspirators that Bin Ladin wanted to advance the date because he knew they would move forward when they were ready.
