# derailing messes up all scheduled breaks

**URL:** https://forum.beeminder.com/t/derailing-messes-up-all-scheduled-breaks/5585
**Category:** Bugabee
**Created:** [July 25, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/derailing-messes-up-all-scheduled-breaks/5585 "2019-07-25T12:30:59Z")
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### Author: ![narthur](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/narthur/32/5113_2.png) [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/derailing-messes-up-all-scheduled-breaks/5585/2 "2019-07-25T13:29:51Z")

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I highly doubt this is in the interest of selling weekends off, since, at least as far as retroratcheting goes, weekends off makes things worse, and I suspect the two issues may be related.

> [@What are the technical reasons for the incompatibility between autoratcheting and weekends off?](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/what-are-the-technical-reasons-for-the-incompatibility-between-autoratcheting-and-weekends-off/5213):
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> I realize the simple reason is that auto-ratcheting advances your road to the left, thereby moving the weekend breaks. (Does this also happen for manually-added breaks?) But why couldn’t the road be moved up instead of to the left? If this currently affects user-scheduled breaks as well as automatic weekend breaks, would this ever be what the user wanted? When I schedule breaks, it’s because I want a break between those specific dates, and even if I retro-ratchet I really don’t want that to cha…

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