(It's actually not too bad, that recalibration of triumph: these days, if I open the fridge and see that I've somehow outlived the expiry date on a pack of bacon, I punch the air victoriously).
But with so much of the legal authority already up in the air following an adverse ruling by the US appeal court, the more significant deadline remains the expiry of the existing Patriot Act provision at midnight on 31 May.
But it's not just the expiry date on films such as Unfriended that could concern future film-makers.
His clients remain concerned that they will not have time to prepare for civil claims due to the expiry on 16 August of the three-year period in which they can be lodged.
That's not to say that I'm anti-camera, as I've already amassed more than 600 new photographs, but I've also downloaded an app called X-pire that erases all social media photos after a set expiry date, so at least my avatar is a current representation of me.
The deficit is falling thanks to the cyclical recovery of the economy, the expiry of your stimulus programmes, a fortuitous but partly temporary slowdown in health-care costs, and three deficit-reduction packages worth 1% of GDP over the next decade.This isn't good enough.
And a newer one: some blockbuster biotech products will face patent expiry and generic competition over the next couple of years, first in Europe and then probably in America too.Nor is the biotech industry immune to the safety problems that have plagued big pharmaceutical firms.
To help prevent more of this, Visa and Mastercard have asked their member banks not to issue credit cards with such expiry dates.
It seems possible that data as well as content will eventually travel with security, location and expiry policies attached.It is when computers become virtual machines that things get really tricky.
The militants insist they will avenge the deaths of their members in Israeli raids Islamic Jihad vowed revenge for Mr Seder's killing and say that the ceasefire may not last until its expiry date in late September, let alone be renewed thereafter, unless many of their comrades are released from Israeli custody.
This week's collapse means the administration cannot get a Doha agreement through Congress before June next year, the date for the expiry of George Bush's trade-promotion authority which prevents the deal from being destroyed by legislators' amendments.
