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RECORDS · INTERVALS · RECONCILIATIONU.S. ENGLISH
Workday Evidence Review

Clearer evidence for a question about your workday

THE RECORD DESK / LISA AUS

One workday.
Three kinds
of evidence.

A schedule describes a plan. A time record describes entries. A statement reports a result. Make the comparison before drawing a conclusion.

Start with the three-record model →

THE CENTRAL QUESTION
Are these numbers about the same interval?

Check the dates ↗Check the units ↗Check the version ↗

THE WORKBENCH / LOCAL ARITHMETIC

Put the intervals side by side

One planned interval, one observed interval, and an optional comparable quantity. Use fictional times to learn the method. No names, dates, employee IDs, wages or account access.

Ordinary clock arithmetic only. Not for daylight-saving changes, time-zone changes or intervals longer than 24 hours. Excluded minutes are your assumption; this tool cannot decide payable time.

Manual method and an example
  1. Convert each start and end to minutes after midnight: hour × 60 + minute.
  2. For a next-day end, add 1,440 to the end before subtracting the start. Reject an interval of zero, less than zero or more than 1,440 minutes.
  3. Keep the observed span and any assumed exclusion separate. Subtract only an explicitly stated number of minutes.
  4. Convert reported decimal hours to minutes by multiplying by 60. Compare only if the unit, period and scope match.

Fictional example: planned 22:00–06:00 next day is 480 minutes. Observed 22:00–06:30 next day is 510 minutes. Subtracting an assumed 30 minutes gives 480 minutes. A comparable 8.00-hour quantity equals 480 minutes. Numerical agreement does not verify the assumption, record or payment.

THE READING FILE

Follow the record, one question at a time

Seven complementary pieces: an evidence model, a boundary guide, arithmetic examples, version analysis, a review packet, an adjustment trace and a public-source audit.

7 articles

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