End of the game and action A

[Juli4]

I just won a game on BGA by finishing with action A, while the other player already arrived. I received buttons for that. But at home I always interpreted the rules about "end of the game" that you don't receive points for action A. I would have been a draw without that.

Did someone understand this paragraph of the rules and could explain it?

[reikja]

The official rule book refers to the situation A here out of your basic A or B actions to begin with:
A) advance and receive buttons
B) take and place patch

So in your final move, you might not be able to take and place a patch
and in advancing, your time token stops at the final point, providing you with a certain
number of buttons until this very spot.