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Attendance across offices in different timezones

Which day a check-in belongs to when your offices disagree about what day it is, and how to read one report across all of them.

Each location keeps its own timezone, and a check-in belongs to the business day at the place it happened — never the reader’s day. A scan in Singapore lands on Singapore’s Tuesday even if you are reading the report on Monday evening in London.

This sounds obvious and is the thing most attendance software gets wrong, because it is only visible for a few hours a day.

Why it matters more than it looks

With an office in Dubai and one in London, there are five hours of every day when the two disagree about the date. A system that stamps rows with the server’s date puts a Dubai morning on the previous day for anybody who looks from London — and the error is invisible most of the time, which is what makes it expensive. You find it at month end, in the rows that matter.

The business day is decided when the row is written, from the location’s own timezone, and it is never recalculated afterwards. Somebody moving country does not rewrite their history.

Reading it from one place

The timezone toggle switches between site time and your time. It changes the clock and never the date: First In 09:12 may be shown in Dubai’s clock or yours, and the row stays on Dubai’s Tuesday either way. The column header tells you which you are looking at.

Live shows every location side by side, each with its own local time and its own count, so an office that has gone home reads differently from one that has not opened.

Attendance filters by location, and the CSV carries a Timezone column next to the times it qualifies rather than gluing an offset onto the value — so a spreadsheet still parses 09:12 as a time.

Setting up a second office

Add another location with its own timezone, put a screen by its door, and that is the whole of it. Each location keeps its own checks too: a geofence in one city has nothing to do with the rules in another, and one office can require the office network while another does not.

Nothing is shipped, nobody travels, and the fourth office takes the same five minutes as the first — done by whoever is already standing in it.

Overnight shifts

A shift starting Monday evening and ending Tuesday morning is recorded exactly as it happened: the check-in on Monday, the check-out on Tuesday, each on the business day it belongs to.

Your payroll rules decide how an overnight shift is paid, and they differ by country. LiteEntry keeps the events straight so those rules have something accurate to work from.

Still stuck? Try the demo — most questions here are quicker to answer by pressing the thing than by reading about it.