Scheduling
Sparkrock 365 includes a Scheduling extension that makes scheduling more efficient and organized. For information about how to set up the Scheduling extensions, see Set up scheduling.
How scheduling handles overnight shifts
A single shift must be strictly less than 24 hours long. If your employees work longer shifts, you must set up a series of adjacent shifts.
An overnight shift is any shift that spans midnight, for example, 8:00 PM to 8:00 AM. With overnight shifts, it is important to use the actual date that is worked when calculating overtime and performing other calculations. Overnight shifts can be a challenge because they transfer to the compensation journal with the date that the shift started.
When Sparkrock 365 encounters an overnight shift, it checks to see whether an activity has a start time after midnight. If an activity has a start time after midnight, when the shift is transferred to the compensation journal, the Date Worked value is the shift's Work Date + 1. Activities that cross midnight are allocated to the day in which they begin.
When creating overnight shifts, the best practice is to split activities at midnight.
A note about daylight savings time
Scheduling shift dates and times that are stored internally in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). UTC does not implement daylight savings time, thus it is a best practice for shifts not to span the Daylight Savings Time (DST) changeover time, which is typically 2:00 AM, on the days of the changeover, so that shift and activity durations can be computed correctly.
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