Attendance recording system

摘要

Attendance recording equipment for recording information relating to the attendance of a group of personnel. The equipment includes personnel identification recognition means for receiving a person's identification means in order to produce a signal associated with that person, and a data memory capable of storing information individually associated with each of the personnel. The data also stores information relating to the time of presentation of each identification means to the recognition means. Output means are provided to retrieve information from the data memory at any time during the operation of the equipment. The data memory includes a store for a time worked total for each of the personnel, and this total is periodically and regularly incremented while the person is present. When the identification of a person is presented to the recognition means a display is illuminated to indicate the variation between the number of hours worked by that person and a predetermined number of hours. Accessing means are provided to alter the information in the data memory.