Checks public orders
Mast watches federal and state flag-status sources for half-staff orders, observances, and official notices.
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Browse plain-language explainers for U.S. flag etiquette, half-staff terminology, state status pages, and national days of remembrance.
Mast is an informational flag-status tool. It helps answer whether a U.S. flag should be flown at full-staff or half-staff, why the order is active, and where to verify the official source.
Mast watches federal and state flag-status sources for half-staff orders, observances, and official notices.
Each detected order is organized by location, authority, start date, end date, and source so the current status is easier to read.
Mast is informational, so active orders include a source link when available and should be verified with the official notice when it matters.
Half-staff means lowering the flag below the top of the staff as a sign of mourning, remembrance, or honor for the period named in an official order.
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Morning alerts when there is an active flag order for this device.
Morning alerts when there is an active flag order delivered to your inbox.
Text alerts are planned for morning flag-order updates.
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Mast tracks current federal flag orders and known New Mexico state orders so residents, public buildings, schools, businesses, and local websites can quickly check whether flags should be at half-staff or full-staff today.
The New Mexico source in Mast is New Mexico Governor / governor.state.nm.us, categorized as Official Governor Current Status And Executive Orders. New Mexico has an official source Mast can check for current flag status. Mast also uses the source to track historical New Mexico half-staff notices when dated orders are available.
New Mexico publishes a current flag-status image on the Governor homepage, an Executive Orders index that exposes half-staff order PDFs, and searchable Governor press releases with dated lowering windows. The importer reads the homepage current-status signal, discovers half-staff press releases and Executive Order PDFs, keeps press releases as parseable dated notice sources, and parses beginning-through-sundown, sunrise-through-sundown, from-date-to-date, and same-month short end-date lowering windows.
Mast answers a common question quickly: should a flag be at half-staff or full-staff today? The page shows the current status, the relevant authority, date range, and source when a known order is available.
The public API can also provide flag status data for websites, dashboards, signage, and small automations that need a simple JSON response.