[user104658]

Anyway since I know you all love to hear me harping on; here's why I don't think it's evern linguistically incorrect.

The idea that "moving it forward" must mean making it later is based on the assumption that one is talking about the way that the object ("the meeting") moves in a flow of time. Time progresses, thus, moving forward means "being later" in a linear progression.

However, if one isn't talking about the "flow" of time at all, but rather considering time/space to be allegorical and a fixed point in time to be a literal physical object, that changes things. Imagine time as a physical space - let's say a concert. Most people are centred upon themselves - "me" - as the point of reference, Object A, the performer on stage. Object B - "the meeting" - is out there somewhere in the crowd. When we say "Can Bob in row F come forward!" we mean, approach the stage.

Then when we say "bring the meeting forward" - we mean "bring object B closer to me, object A"... close the time gap between the fixed point "now" and the variable point "when the meeting is".


I assume this is all totally clear now and you are welcome.