claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix [BUG] [Max plan] Weekly usage limit reset day shifting forward each week (Wed → Thu → Fri) [2 comments, 2 participants]

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• This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
• I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

Summary

On the Claude Max plan, my weekly usage limit reset day is shifting forward by ~1 day each week instead of staying on a fixed weekday or rolling cleanly on a 168-hour cadence.

Timeline

• Initial subscription: Weekly limit reset on Wednesday
• Last week: Reset shifted to Thursday
• This week (2026-04-30): Usage page shows next reset on Friday

Net shift: +2 days over 2 weeks.

Expected behavior

Per the Help Center article "How do usage and length limits work?", the weekly limit should follow a rolling 7-day window from the first session of the week. In practice, this should either:

• Stay on the same weekday if my usage pattern is consistent, or
• Roll cleanly on a 168-hour cadence

Actual behavior

The reset day shifts forward by roughly one calendar day per week, which suggests the rolling window is being recalculated with an additional offset (possibly a buffer or a recalculation trigger when the limit is hit).

Related issues

• #29680 — earlier report of weekday shift on Max plan (Feb 2026)
• #52921 — 24-hour cycle bug on Max 20x (Apr 2026)

Environment

• Plan: Claude Max
• Account region: Turkey
• Observed via: claude.ai → Settings → Usage
• Date observed: 2026-04-30

Screenshot

Question for the team

Is this the documented rolling-window behavior, or is my account affected by the same calculation bug as #29680/#52921? If the former, can the docs be updated to clarify that the reset day will progressively shift?

What Should Happen?

Under the documented 168-hour rolling window, my weekly reset day should either stay on the same weekday week after week (if my first-prompt time is consistent) or shift backward (if I start earlier in the cycle the following week). It should never shift forward, because forward shift requires the window to be longer than 168 hours.

Concretely, expected behavior:

• If my first prompt of week 1 was Wednesday 14:00, my reset should be next Wednesday 14:00.
• If my next first prompt happens at Wednesday 14:01 or later, reset stays on Wednesday.
• If my next first prompt happens earlier (e.g., Tuesday), reset shifts backward to Tuesday.
• A reset shift from Wednesday → Thursday → Friday over three weeks should not be possible.

Either:

1. The reset calculation should match the documented 168-hour rolling window (so the day stops drifting forward), OR
2. The Help Center documentation should be updated to describe the actual mechanism — including any buffer, recalculation trigger, or condition under which the window exceeds 168 hours.

Whichever is the correct fix, the user-facing behavior and the documented behavior should match.

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

1. Subscribe to Claude Max plan.
2. Note the weekday on which your weekly limit first resets (in my case: Wednesday).
3. Continue normal usage for 2-3 weeks.
4. Each week, check claude.ai → Settings → Usage and record the displayed "next reset" weekday.
5. Observed: reset day shifts forward by ~1 day each week (Wed → Thu → Fri).
6. Expected: reset day stays the same or shifts backward, per the documented 168-hour rolling window.

Note: I do not have screenshots from previous weeks, only from today (2026-04-30). However, Anthropic's backend should have my reset history.

Claude Model

Not sure / Multiple models

Is this a regression?

I don't know

Last Working Version

No response

Claude Code Version

1.4758.0

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

Windows

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

Additional Information

Support acknowledgment Fin Conversation ID: 215474123652090 (Anthropic engineering can pull the full transcript from this ID).