Undertime
Undertime is the gap between your goal and the hours you actually logged in a given period. If your weekly goal is 40 hours and you have tracked 32, you have 8 hours of undertime. Sandtime.io shows this as an unfilled section of the progress bar on the dashboard.
Undertime is not an error or a flag in Sandtime.io - it is just a measurement. It becomes visible to managers and administrators when they review timesheets.
How Undertime Appears
The dashboard progress bar fills from left to right as you log hours. When the week ends with the bar less than full, that gap is undertime. The bar shows your tracked hours and goal side by side - for example, "32h of 40h."
There is no separate "undertime" label in Sandtime.io - the unfilled bar communicates it visually.
Common Causes
- Part-time week (holidays, sick leave, approved absence)
- Forgetting to log time for tasks already completed
- Time logged against the wrong week or period
- Part-time schedule where the goal has not been adjusted to match actual contracted hours
Correcting the Hours
If the undertime is a logging gap rather than genuine absence, you can edit or add past entries in Timesheets as long as the period is not locked. See Edit or delete a time entry for instructions.
If the period is locked, a manager or administrator must unlock it first - see Locking and unlocking timesheets.
Relationship to Overtime
Undertime and overtime are mirror images: undertime is hours below the goal, overtime is hours above it. Both are visible on the dashboard and in reports for the same period.
Related Terms
- Goal - the daily, weekly, and monthly targets undertime is measured against
- Overtime - the opposite: hours logged above the goal
- Core hours - the setting that determines what the goal is
- Dashboard - where undertime appears as an unfilled progress bar
- Lock - timesheet locking that prevents retroactive corrections