In the run- up to that deadline, bond-fund managers began to pay unusual attention to the inner workings of the Treasury's payments system, something which few people had previously thought it necessary to understand.
Greece said it had extended the deadline for bond holders not governed by Greek law to sign up until 23 March.
The new deadline for bonds governed by foreign law is now 20 April, the Greek finance ministry said.
For those of us who covered it, as I did for The New York Times, it claimed a year of our lives -- a year of endlessly surreal events, backbreaking deadlines, intense bonding and total immersion in the bizarre demimonde of Southern California celebrity, at once unspeakably trivial and the very center of the universe.
Financial markets have become more jittery as the Greek bond deadline has neared.
Lenders to the company agreed on Wednesday to again extend a deadline for its bond exchange offer, to Friday at 5 p.m.
The lawyer for the administrator James Moore says the League rejected a plan to save the club before their 17:00 BST deadline for a financial bond.
The governor and Legislature were at their best: dickering, rather than dithering, while admittedly prodded by a deadline to place a bond measure on the November ballot.
And with lawmakers unlikely to come back to Albany until after the November elections, there is serious doubt that they will pass the measure by a December deadline for refinancing the bonds on the Javits Center.
"Questions still remain about the status of some foreign law bonds the deadline of which has been extended to 23 March, but it would appear that a disorderly default has been avoided for the time being and that Greece is now less broke than it was a few days ago".
One of the nation's largest mall owners, General Growth Properties, is laden with more than $25 billion of debt, has missed payment deadlines on its bonds, and is trying to avoid filing for bankruptcy protection.
