What does “Assign times before the check-out cut-off to the previous day during import” mean?

This option assigns attendance records with a time before the specified Out Time Cut Off Hour to the previous day during attendance import. 

It is useful for overnight shifts, where employees finish work after midnight but their check-out should belong to the day the shift started

Example

Suppose the Out Time Cut Off Hour is set to 29:30 (5:30 AM on the next day) ,  and a raw attendance record has the date and time  7 May, 03:15.

With this option enabled:

• Since 03:15 is before the 05:30 cut-off, the record is assigned to 6 May.

• The attendance date and time are recorded as 6 May, 27:15. In the 48-hour time format, this represents 03:15 on 7 May.

This keeps the early-morning check-out associated with the previous day’s overnight shift rather than treating it as attendance for a new working day.

In Attendance Module Setup, General tab, Attendance Import Panel, when this option is turned on,

And the Out Time Cut-Off Hour in Shift Code or Global Working Hours, other settings tab is defined.

During Attendance Import, any time before that Out Time Cut-Off Hour will be treated as previous day attendance,

e.g. 2017/05/07  03:15 will be treated as 2017/05/06 27:15

Which is good for the overnight shift. So that the check-out time counted to the last work day.