# How to handle reports with complicated time requirements

**URL:** <https://community.blippa.com/t/how-to-handle-reports-with-complicated-time-requirements/337>\
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**Tags:** worker, date-and-time\
**Created:** [April 15, 2026, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.blippa.com/t/how-to-handle-reports-with-complicated-time-requirements/337 "2026-04-15T12:30:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![mrunhem](https://community.blippa.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@mrunhem](https://community.blippa.com/u/mrunhem)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.blippa.com/t/how-to-handle-reports-with-complicated-time-requirements/337/1 "2026-04-15T12:30:16Z")

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Today we made a night watch report for a boat club. The club is using the Blippa system to record all events (checkin/checkout, controlled checkpoints, notes etc).

All data is stored in a Blippa data source that can be viewed in a Blippa page.

But, in this case, the club also wanted a daily email with a report spreadsheet attached.  
So, we used a Worker (DataSource Report).  
The trick was to make the report span over the night…  
Normally you can select a 24 hour day, but how to select events from 7PM to 7AM???

The solution was to make our variables more capable:  
(Tidpunkt is Swedish for time)

 ![Screenshot 2026-04-15 at 14.26.28](https://community.blippa.com/uploads/default/original/1X/951268a4298c2eb29a57bcf8a3b1c215f1e3b545.png)