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Start Time & Due Date Issue

Ropson James 0 Reputation points
2025-09-11T18:25:40.17+00:00

Hello,

I’m encountering a key scheduling issue in Planner Premium that I’d like to bring to attention:

What’s happening:

  • Tasks are stamped with the creation time (e.g., 11 AM) as the start timestamp.

A 1-day duration is interpreted as 8 working hours, causing the end time to spill into the next working day (e.g., 11 AM next day).

This cascading effect shifts dependent tasks forward and compromises timelines.

Why it matters: In Planner Basic, tasks were date-only, so they always finished same-day. Planner Premium's current behavior introduces complexity and misalignment.

We’d like to see:

A default start-of-day time setting (e.g., 8:00 AM) that applies when users create tasks.

Smarter scheduling logic that aligns task finish times to business hours automatically.

This would greatly enhance ease of planning and reduce manual corrections or reliance on flows.

Thanks,

Ropson James

Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Teams for business | Tasks | Other
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  1. Ian-Ng 6,125 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
    2025-09-11T19:15:58.26+00:00

    Hi @Ropson James, 

    Good day! Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A forum and sharing the detail. 

    Thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience and raise this concern. I truly appreciate the attention you have given to highlight how the current scheduling behavior in Planner Premium impacts your workflow. 

    After checking on my side, I completely agree with your observation. It would indeed be very valuable to have a built-in option to configure default start-of-day times or adjust scheduling logic to better fit business hours. While this design may work well in certain scenarios, I understand how it causes problems in your case, and your idea makes perfect sense. 

    Because of this, I would kindly encourage you to share your feedback directly with the Microsoft Planner team through our official Feedback Portal. The Planner and Teams product groups actively monitor submissions there to gather customer insights and prioritize improvements. Here are the steps to contribute feedback: 

    1. Go to the Microsoft Feedback Portal: Planner · Community 
    2. Sign in with your Microsoft account. 
    3. Select the Planner product area. 
    4. Post your suggestion with details (you may reuse what you have written here). 
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    Sharing your experience through this channel is the most impactful way to advocate for a change that would benefit you and other users. 

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