How far back can I log my hours?
Every account can log its own time for the last five working days. That window sits in the baseline the product describes as not a permission and not removable, alongside marking your own attendance and requesting leave. Administrators configure logging windows separately, so the exact span can differ by company.
Five working days is roughly one week of memory, and the number is chosen for that reason rather than for tidiness.
Time logged the same afternoon is a recollection. Time logged three weeks later is a reconstruction, built from a calendar and a guess at what filled the gaps between meetings.
The difference shows up in what the data can be used for. A capacity conversation built on reconstructed weeks is a conversation about somebody's memory of a month.
A short window also keeps the approvals queue readable. Reviewing five days of one person's work is possible. Reviewing a backfilled month is rubber-stamping with extra steps.
Working days are counted, not calendar days. So a weekend does not eat the window. On a Monday the span still reaches back into the previous week, which is the case the rule exists to cover.
The right sitting in the baseline matters too. It is described in the product as not a permission and not removable, which means nobody has to be granted it and nobody can have it taken away.
That makes the window one of the few rules here that behaves the same for everyone. Whatever else a role carries, logging your own recent time is always available.
The window is configuration rather than a fixed rule. A team with a genuine reason for a longer span can have one, at the cost of everything above.
Log at the end of each day rather than at the end of each week. A week logged on Friday is four days of memory and one day of fact.
Related questions
What counts as a working day?
The window counts working days rather than calendar days, so a weekend in between does not consume it. A Monday still reaches back into the previous week.
Who can change the window?
An administrator, through the logging windows configuration on the timesheet administration screen. It is a tenant-level setting rather than a per-person one.
Can somebody else log time for me?
Logging your own time is in the baseline every account holds. What somebody else may do with your entries depends on the permissions their role carries.