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Shift schedule planner

Plan a rotating shift rota from presets like 2-2-3 or DuPont, showing coverage, hours per person and rest warnings, with CSV and ICS export.

Enter teams and a start date to lay out the rota.

Rotation math runs on plain UTC calendar days, so it ignores daylight saving: a shift keeps its clock time even on a spring-forward night. Rest is measured in whole off days, one day counting as 24 hours, and the grid cannot see day and night squads inside one team, so an 11-hour rule broken by a squad swap on the same dates is not detected. Calendar files carry the chosen zone as a hint (X-WR-TIMEZONE) with wall-clock times, and most calendar apps import them as local time. Everything computes in this tab; nothing is uploaded.

Rota setup

First day of the rota

Days to plan1 to 366

Minimum rest (hours)EU rule of thumb is 11

Most shifts in a row

Shift length (hours)

Shift startClock time the calendar events open at

TeamsOne team per line: name, pattern, offset days, people. Up to 24 lines, names to 60 characters.

Time zone for calendar files

More settings

A pattern is alternating on and off day counts starting with on: 2-2-3-2-2-3 is the Pitman rotation, 4-3-3-4-3-3-4-4 is DuPont. The preset names pitman, dupont, 4-4 and 5-2 also resolve. The offset shifts a team's cycle start against the rota's first day, so squads can interleave.

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