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Clock Shift

What it does

Enough to replace the photograph of the rota, and deliberately not much more.

Logging a shift

Date, start, end, unpaid break, which kind of shift it was, where, and a note if you want one. Only the start and the end are compulsory.

The duration and the paid hours update while you type, so a break entered wrongly is obvious before you save rather than a month later.

The three views

A month grid, a week, and a plain list. The month is the default on a laptop and the list is the default on a phone. Both are always one tap from the other two.

The month grid is designed for a phone screen first rather than shrunk down to fit one afterwards.

What is next

Whether you are on now, with a countdown to the end of it, or what is coming and when it starts. Below that, the hours you have worked this week.

Repeating patterns

Describe a cycle once and it generates real shifts from it. Four on four off, two days two nights four off, a fixed week, or something only your workplace does.

Nothing is written until you have seen a preview of it.

Days you changed stay changed

Swap a shift, take a day off, cover for somebody. Regenerate the pattern afterwards and the days you touched by hand are left alone. A pattern is a starting point, not something you have to fight.

Shift types that match yours

Early, Day, Late, Night, and whatever else your workplace calls them, each with a colour you pick from a set chosen to stay readable on a bright phone outdoors and a dim one at three in the morning.

Every shift also shows its code as text. A calendar you can only read by colour is no use to a lot of people, and that includes a fair few shift workers.

Nights and clock changes

A shift crossing midnight is one shift. On the night the clocks go forward, 19:00 to 07:00 comes to eleven hours. Thirteen when they go back.

The sort of thing that stays invisible until your hours disagree with your payslip.

Light and dark

Both, to the same standard. It follows what your phone is set to unless you tell it otherwise.

What it doesn’t do yet

The first release is the shift log and nothing else. These are all reasonable things to expect, and none of them are in it yet.

  • Pay. No hourly rates, no overtime multipliers, no working out what your payslip should say.
  • Exporting. No CSV, no PDF, no feed into another calendar.
  • Reminders and notifications.
  • Anything involving other people: teams, sharing, swaps, manager views.

Everything that is in it sits on servers we run in the UK. The privacy page says what that means today.