Learn English – What do you call the time period between notification of an event and the event

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I'm in the situation where I have an event, and I want to notify some people 15 minutes before that event happens (but it could be 30 minutes, or 1 day, or any amount of time).

What do you call that 15 minutes?

UPDATE: My specific case is for a program I'm writing. I have an event and I want to create a notification that happens X time before the event. I'm having trouble finding a name for that X time.

NOTIFICATION             TIME LAPSE                   EVENT
     |                       | (belongs to              |
     |                       |  notification)           |
     |<------------------------------------------------>|

I was trying to name it something like "Notification premure" or "Notification ahead-time", but none of them convince me, and I'm having troubles thinking of other alternatives. Any ideas?

Best Answer

You might call it the interim.

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