# Check In and Check Out

Start and stop the clock on your working day, and what each press writes.

Two presses make a working day: one when you start and one when you finish. Everything else on your attendance record is calculated from the gap between them.

- Open **My Attendance** and select **Check In**. The status changes from **Not Checked In**, the clock starts, and **Remaining** begins counting down against your scheduled hours.

  ![The timer band at the top of My Attendance. It reads Net Working Time above a large 00:00:00, then Effective 0h 00m 00s, Breaks 0:00:00, Remaining 8:30:00 and the status Not Checked In. At the right-hand end, beside a sun, a pale green Check In button sits above the note Your shift has not started yet. Check-in opens at 08:30.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/worklink/my-attendance/timer-band.png)
- Take breaks as you normally would. Time recorded as a break is held separately and does not count towards **Net Working Time**, which is why the two figures differ by the end of the day.
- Select **Check Out** when you finish. The button in the band changes to **Check Out** for as long as you are checked in.

Once you check out, the day stops being live and becomes a row in your attendance records, with the status Worklink worked out from your shift.

## If you forget

You cannot check in for a day that has passed, and you cannot edit your own record. Both are deliberate: an attendance record that its owner could rewrite would not be worth keeping.

The route back is a regularization, which puts the correction in front of your manager instead.

> **Tip:**
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> **Raise it the same week**
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> A correction is easiest to approve while somebody still remembers the day. See [Request a Correction](/worklink/help-docs/my-records/request-a-correction) for the form and what each request type asks for.

> **Note:**
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> **Checking out is what closes the day**
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> A day left open does not quietly close itself at midnight. It stays open, and your manager sees a record with a check in and no check out, which is one of the most common things a regularization is raised for.