Now it is I that cannot follow, I don't recognize the term "sitting date", so I'll go by my situation. We were given a date in assignment court where we selected a trial date. It is an actual date for trial. Once that date was set, I scheduled discoveries, which is questioning of the applicant and respondent, or at least it was in my case. the proceedings were recorded and transcribed and will accompany my trial record which is to be filed 30 days before trial....then you submit witness lists etc to the other party and voila...you have a trial

I hope this helps and don't base your case on my info, I'm not a lawyer, but I play one in real life