[rt-users] Time in hours

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 12:16, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:07:51AM -0800, Ken Crocker wrote:
> > I don't know about anyone elese, but I've never, in 35 years in this 
> > business, heard of keeping track of work in minutes. Even Microsoft 
> > Project only goes as low as 1/4 hours. Is there anyway we can get the RT 
> > masters to change the time fields to hours and also calculate time 
> > estimated minus time worked giving time left? It seems like a small 
> > thing but it really would make sense. Just a suggestion (don't want to 
> > offend anyone's sensitivities). Thanks.
> 
> It's really a mistake that the field granularity isn't in seconds. Do
> note that RT gets used in a lot of scenarios that aren't project
> management. Even scenarios where some of the actors are automated
> agents.  
> 
> But have a look at RT 3.5, where we give you your choice of minutes and
> hours ;)

Shouldn't time fields really always be SQL datetimes so queries can be
based on interval math?

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