The majority of time entries recorded for employees relate to the events of one day. Some attendances or absences, however, are spread over a longer period, such as when an employee is on vacation or is sick. These attendances and absences are referred to as several-day attendances and absences.

It is particularly important that time entries relating to work incapacity are recorded as spanning several days so that HR information for subsequent illnesses or relationships of periods of work incapacity, for example, can be documented appropriately. This means that one time entry must be made for the entire period of the attendance or absence, that is, a different start and end date, rather than the time entry being entered for each individual day of the attendance or absence.