At midnight I may be tomorrow; by breakfast I have a new name. You can schedule me, but you can never arrive while I am still ahead. What am I?

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Hint: When it arrives, it becomes the present.

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The future

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The future is always ahead of the present. Once a planned moment arrives, it is no longer future; it has become now.

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