How to create an 8/6 working day calander in Projects

Question

I need to set my calander to 8 days work 6 days not working on a 12 hr day
If the calander had a 2 week cycle option this would be easy, but I need help please

Answer 1

Dale,
Sorry to butt in but you did throw out the challenge even if it was to Trevor. It's tough (for me) to ignore a challenge.
Actually the calendar is not that hard but a little tedious. First I created a custom calendar called "86" based on a 7 day a week calendar. I then set the working times for each day from 6:00am to 7:00pm with 1 hour lunch. Finally I created an
exception for 6 days off. I repeated that exception span every other week for as many weeks as necessary to cover the project. That gives an 8 days on, 6 days off pattern with 12 hour work days, just like the poster wanted. The tedious part of course is entering
each of the exception periods, which could be automated with VBA.
John
For the benefit of the original poster, here is a screen shot of the custom calendar. I only took the exceptions up through January 2015 to illustrate the process. Obviously additional exceptions are required, basically two per month, for the remainder of
the project.