# The "weekends off" graph behavior surprised me **URL:** \ **Category:** Bugabee\ **Created:** [September 11, 2023, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/the-weekends-off-graph-behavior-surprised-me/11144 "2023-09-11T22:12:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hnsn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/hnsn/32/6080_2.png) [@hnsn](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/hnsn)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/the-weekends-off-graph-behavior-surprised-me/11144/1 "2023-09-11T22:12:47Z")
I recently set a few goals as “weekends off” for the first time. I remember seeing the warning that I should change my rate to daily. But I had no idea _why_ I should do that, and I thought, “but I want to do this three times _a week_”, so I didn’t change it. A few days after I set weekends off, I noticed that the slope of my line during the week didn’t change (it should be steeper since I want to get the same amount done but in fewer days)! Then I stumbled across [a thread here about weekends off](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/odd-road-behavior-upon-commit-to-rate-change-was-odd-weekends-off-behavior-upon-turning-the-feature-on/2643) and it finally clicked why I needed to change the rate to days! The thing is… even if I had followed the original advice and changed the rate to “daily”, I still wouldn’t have understood _why_. But after reading that thread, I get that if I want to do something three times a week, during the weekdays only, then I need to set the daily rate to 3/5 (not 3/7). What a surprising and nasty papercut! It would’ve been so easy for me to just go along with the effectively-lessened rate without even noticing! But the fact that I have to hold Beeminder’s hand to tell it how much I _actually_ want to do it based on the working days is salt in the wound! I really love Beeminder but that was not fun. ---
**Author:** ![hnsn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/hnsn/32/6080_2.png) [@hnsn](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/hnsn)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 10:17pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/the-weekends-off-graph-behavior-surprised-me/11144/2 "2023-09-11T22:17:33Z")
I also have a custom dashboard that shows all my goals with their rates, and if I keep the rate as “daily” the rate is meaningless to me (“0.6 sessions per day”??), but if I set it back to “weekly” it’s inaccurate! (“4 sessions per week” when it’s actually 3 sessions per week)…