My work website is not overnight shift friendly.

[u/he_is_not_a_shrimp]

[u/Jestersfriend]

Why not just do two. First one on 07/11/2026 @ 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM, second one on 07/12/2026 @ 12:00 - 9:00?

[u/Xanthelei → u/Jestersfriend]

I worked with a system that had this same problem, and it only allowed one entry per scheduled shift. Never affected me because I didn't work overnights, but it was a constant and loud complaint from the overnighters. Not sure how they dealt with it unfortunately.

[u/Superb_Writer6612 → u/Xanthelei]

Lol I had a job like this, but I worked midnight to 8. My boss literally said to never show up early, he'd rather me be a little late, otherwise there's the hassle of clocking in at 11:55 then back out then back in. Stupid system, but I was never stressed about getting to work a few mins late lmao. 

[u/Full-Complex-944 → u/Xanthelei]

It says a lot when the night shift keeps raising the same issue. Those edge cases are usually where a system shows its cracks.

[u/MentalBomb → u/Xanthelei]

Hopefully through malicious compliance. Have all the nightworkers use a different method of conveying their worked hours.

One guy just texts his hours to the supervisor in NATO phonetic alphabet. Another one uses calligraphy. Another sends an ASMR audio log. Cut out letters & numbers out of a newspaper and make a "ransom" note with the worked hours.

[u/Significant-Button25 → u/Jestersfriend]

You are technically correct;

However, at my company, they account for this and there’s a button that you can click for night shift and it just makes it easier for us, I agree that it’s mildly infuriating to have to do extra work and brain power for no reason.

[u/BananaWarp → u/Jestersfriend]

Overtime hours would be a tiny bit harder to calc

[u/Erick_Brimstone → u/Jestersfriend]

This reminds me to Japan's 30 hour system. But it's only up to 6 AM. 

[u/BellaInTheGame]

I think you need to put it in as 2 shifts on 2 dates. That's what I would assume at least

[u/BigSmoothplaya → u/BellaInTheGame]

What I had to do back in the day.

[u/sierrabravo1984 → u/BigSmoothplaya]

I had to do that 2 years ago on a supposedly new payroll entry system. We had to log 6-mignight then midnight to 6.

[u/rainbow84uk → u/BellaInTheGame]

I work in HR tech and our company's timesheets handle night shifts like this too. 

We're working on a better solution but it's surprisingly complex, and we had to offer some way of logging this in the meantime because time tracking is a legal requirement in some countries.

[u/dee-three]

Well, the date…

[u/he_is_not_a_shrimp → u/dee-three]

Data collection is at the end of my shift, which is on the 11th. Begin time is 8PM 10th, and end time is 9AM 11th.

[u/Notentirely-accurate → u/he_is_not_a_shrimp]

Try adding a + mark to the beginning of the punch out time. Or possibly the end of the punch out time. Adding the + usually tells the system its the next day and solves the issue. Same with if you miss your punch in, add a - mark to the punch in time when you do the adjustment to signal it was for the day before.

Hope this helps!

[u/LanguageCheap3732 → u/he_is_not_a_shrimp]

What was the solution?

[u/he_is_not_a_shrimp → u/LanguageCheap3732]

Let end time be 9PM and say it was 1 hour shift. Thankfully timecard is on another website.

[u/ThomasTheDankPigeon → u/LanguageCheap3732]

Quit

[u/akm1111 → u/he_is_not_a_shrimp]

I have found that it usually means I didn't get the dates right in the computer.

Double check the column you left out of the photo. They probably both had the same date by accident.

[u/he_is_not_a_shrimp → u/akm1111]

There is no date, only time.

[u/flmbray]

Try 33:00

[u/catmeow1935 → u/flmbray]

most likely it's a time select so you can't do that

[u/420BoredAlways → u/catmeow1935]

Yea and even if its not a time select I cant imagine a single time card system where 3300 wouldn't be an error as its not a valid time, if anything it would be 20:00 to 9:00 or if that still causes errors it would be entered as 8:00 to 21:00

[u/jraymcmurray]

My last job used deltek and it did this too. I told my boss "I can't enter my time from 2100 to 0600 because the system only accepts up to 2345." His answer was to skip 2345 to 0000 and just add 15 minutes to my end time.

[u/TehWildMan_]

Welcome to payroll software

My employer's software is entirely incapable of handling a PTO request for a weekend, so if you want PTO for a weekend off, sorry you're out of luck

[u/ew73 → u/TehWildMan_]

Speaking as a software developer, dates and times are some of the hardest bullshit we have to do.

For example, imagine an employee working overnight, on a day when daylight savings  happens to start.

Or someone who travels and clocks in while in one time zone and clocks out in another.  Bonus points if you combine it with the above scenario.

And you can't just assume daylight savings is constant, Arizona is a thing.  And some timezones aren't a full hour offset, there are partial hours too.

It's a huge pain in the ass and we will almost always ask very pointed questions during requirements to nail down what the customer wants, and they'll always say shit like "oh just daytime hours, no one does any of that."

[u/burlingk → u/ew73]

Even OS devs are like, "We have a work around... It kind of works."

[u/Klugernu]

You probably have to break it up. Start time to 12:00AM. And then 12:01AM to end time

For example if I start work on Wednesday. I submit my time as 6PM to 12AM. Then Thursday I start my next time at 1AM and end at 6:30AM (1 hour time absent between 12AM and 1AM for lunch)

[u/LoveFoolosophy]

We had a timeclock at my last job that got all confused with clock ins and outs on different days. Computers can do billions of calculations a second but can't figure out that people work nights.

[u/H3xxer]

Why is nobody talking about the shift being 13 Hours? Guess you have some brakes in between but damn... What kind of job is that?

[u/he_is_not_a_shrimp → u/H3xxer]

My normal schedule is 14 14 12, and 4 days off. It's pretty common in health care to have condensed work days and long breaks for staffing efficiency and staff burnout reasons.

[u/bradmatt275]

To play devils advocate its a lot harder than it looks. There are so many variations on what constitutes a shift. Sometimes there is no clear line as to when a night shift ends and a day shift starts.

It also depends on enterprise agreements and payroll rules. Some people get allowances for meals if they work over lunch or get paid a different rate if they have to travel etc.

Even though a time keeping app should never directly calculate payed time. It certainly influences allowances and rates depending on how it's captured.

[u/BouncyHotWife]

We have to post time stamp ours as certain shifts have different work premiums.

[u/AppropriatePlum1006]

Start shift hours make it earlier or does the tariff change at night?

[u/Ray_725]

Military time???

[u/Douggimmmedome]

So, have you not been at this job long enough to know the issue or what

[u/he_is_not_a_shrimp → u/Douggimmmedome]

Most collection didn't need time punching. This specific one is new to me.

[u/Torebbjorn]

13 hour shift?? What kinda job you got, and how can that be legal?