Dear belMarduk: Since English is your second language, you notice things I do not. That is one of the good things about having you with us. My dictionary says "last" is an alternate superlative of "late". and gives eleven definitions of it, and a great many more as adverb,verb intransitive and transitive, noun, etc.etc.
You cannot be like the shoemaker who is supposed to stick to his last.(Meaning mind his own business.)
His "last" is the wooden form on which a leather shoe is built.
So thanks for calling my attention to so many subtlties I had overlooked. Bill