Option to change rollover time, end of day time to after midnight
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Angela Lee
This is a specific request for night-owls, but I frequently work past midnight and would love to be able to set the time for when tasks rollover (e.g., on Tuesday at midnight) to a later time (e.g., every night at 3am). Currently, tasks completed after midnight are marked as completed on the next day (e.g., Wednesday).
Thanks for considering this!
Daniel H. G. Mescoloto
> Trying to keep an "artificial" version of the end of the day on a per-user basis is the kind of software design decision that could cost us months to build.
That’s not correct. The solution is actually much simpler than it may seem.
Let me give you a concrete example.
I’d love my day to end at 3:00 AM.
My local timezone is São Paulo, Brazil (UTC-3).
From a system perspective, you can simply ask the user what time their day should end. If that time goes past midnight, you can handle it internally by shifting the reference timezone in the background. In my case, for example, that could be Chicago, USA (UTC-6).
The key point is that this is purely a backend / data model adjustment.
The interface would still display everything in my local time, not in the shifted timezone.
So the only real change is how the system interprets the “end of day” internally
no complex UI or user-side logic is required.
Mike O
Respectfully, I hope the team will reconsider this decision. I need it for my own personal user story. But, there are so very many use cases and personas that need this. Industries and roles which don’t finish until 2am or 3am. Europe-based international and global teams which roll their day at 4pm USA Pacific as the “most agreeable” midnight, globally. Yes, this is an extremely complex paradigm shift, but one which deserves your additional attention, scoping and backlogging. Thank you for your consideration. —Mike O.
Alex Cunningham
Merged in a post:
Custom Day Start Time
Alina Christenbury
I'm a bit of a night owl and occasionally will work over midnight, I'd find it useful to have the end of the day set to something later, like 4am. Thanks!
Alex Cunningham
Merged in a post:
Customizable "end of day" time
Nicole Simone
Make it so I can change the automatic end of day time to later so tasks don't move over to the next day until my day ends (I personally end my day closer to 2am)
Alex Cunningham
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Events after midnight should still count as part of the current day if I haven’t slept
Daniel H. G. Mescoloto
I live in Brazil, and sometimes I stay up late to watch events like NFL games that start at 12:30 AM and go until 3:30 AM. In these cases, I haven’t gone to sleep yet, so I still consider it part of the previous day.
I’d like Sunsama to treat the start and end of my day based on when I wake up and go to sleep, not strictly by the clock. The next day shouldn’t begin at midnight if I’m still awake — my current day ends when I go to bed.
Alex Cunningham
Merged in a post:
Make the entire app more Night Shift friendly
Janzent Vapor
Some of us work in Night Shift and struggle a bit when using the app overall.
Perhaps it would be more efficient for the team to plan the UI and features around this possibility as well.
Alex Cunningham
Merged in a post:
Better support for night shifts
Steve Chin
I'm a software engineer, where my usual work day will be split across midnight (i.e. 8 pm => 5 am). Unfortunately, that doesn't work too well with Sunsama, which (like most productivity apps) assumes that the end of work is on the same day (and at a later clock time) than the start of work. It'd be great if the time considered to be the "start" of a new day could be customizable. Thanks!
Ren Yu
Is there any update on this?
Alex Cunningham
Merged in a post:
End of day & daily shutdown
Sara Robinson
I don't shut down, I change focus. I also don't stop at midnight. I would really like to be able to change the end of the working day to be 3am, or whenever I need it to be, and for tasks not to automatically roll over to the next day unless I want them to.
Tim Abell
this is really quite annoying, regardless of how hard it is or isn't to build, it is particularly problematic when it comes to daily shutdown and planning as you end up shutting down tomorrow instead of today
I suggest leaving it open for consideration even if it's a long way down your cost/benefit list
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