As of recent, the ‘Dependency management options’ menu have changed from this:
…to this:
Essentially the ‘Weekend awareness’ option has been relocated to the new ‘Project settings’ menu within the Customize menu where we have these (project-level) options under ‘Schedule’:
The ‘Work days’ dropdown menu contains a M-F week or an every day. Note, there is no option for a Sunday-Thursday week which is observed in several countries in the GCC and Africa - this is the root cause of this issue but allow me to elaborate further.
Before this change, the ‘Weekend awareness’ feature was driven by a user-level setting in the user’s Settings > Display > First day of the week:
Once this is set to Saturday, then that user can see their weekends, in Timeline, Calendar and Gantt views, displayed on Friday & Saturday. When shifting task due dates (or durations in the Gantt view) with the old ‘Weekend awareness’ option enabled, that would actually skip Fridays & Saturdays. I know this because I have trained clients in countries that observe such weekends.
However, now with this new update, I realised that this expected behaviour is no longer the case. The weekends are now considered by the ‘Work days’ setting in the new Project Schedule settings and appear to override the user’s display settings, regardless. This is now a critical issue for all users that observe weekends on Fridays & Saturdays.
Pinging the @Forum-team to hopefully escalate this to the product team as I would regard this as a Critical bug for the impacted users.
For a proposed solution, I have created a separate Product Feedback request here.