Set or change your regular hours
Regular hours are the hours you are expected to work during a particular period. WorkTimes compares them with your time entries to calculate overtime or a negative balance.
Set regular hours for a new account
When you add an account, WorkTimes guides you through its basic settings. Enter your hours at Set your Regular Hours. To use a different calculation period, choose Switch to weekly or monthly regular hours.
Change a work schedule’s regular hours
- Open Account Details.
- Open the current schedule, or choose All Work Schedules and select a schedule.
- Choose Regular Hours.
- For daily regular hours, enter a duration for each weekday. For weekly or monthly regular hours, enter the total duration.
- Go back and save the account changes.
WorkTimes then recalculates overtime and absences within that schedule’s date range.
Warning: If your regular hours change from a particular date—for example when moving to part-time work—do not edit the existing schedule. Add a new work schedule with the correct Valid from date. This preserves overtime calculated for earlier dates.
Durations for all-day absences
All-day vacation or holiday, sick-leave, and public or bank-holiday entries do not contain clock times. WorkTimes therefore needs a duration for each weekday. With daily regular hours, it uses that weekday’s regular hours. With weekly or monthly regular hours, enter the durations separately under Durations for Absences.
Daily, weekly, or monthly?
- Daily: WorkTimes calculates the result for each weekday.
- Weekly: WorkTimes compares totals for each calendar week.
- Monthly: WorkTimes compares totals for each calendar month.
People who purchased WorkTimes 5 need WorkTimes Plus to choose weekly or monthly regular hours. New WorkTimes users can choose all three periods.
Warning: Do not change an existing account from daily to weekly or monthly regular hours, or the other way around. The app warns that this can cause irreversible miscalculations. Create a new account when you need a different calculation period.