Hi, when I check Hours Worked report, it is always off a few minutes (more) between check in and out times. The time is being displayed correctly on the top of the form as far as I can see. Any clues? Say I signed in at 7:27pm and then out at 7:31pm, it shows 0.06 instead of 0.04? THen when I sign out for "lunch" and then sign "out" again, the time counts the time in between as work time. The time calcs is all screwed up. Thanks.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
signing in at 7:27 and signing out at 7:31 is 4 minutes; working 4 minutes is the same as working .067 hours. it's taken into account down to the milliseconds as to how long someone is punched in, so even though it displays as a 4 minute difference, it's probably actually somewhere between 3.5 and 4 minutes. that's why it displays as .06 hours instead of .07, i know that's not the answer to your question, but i wanted to explain why it displays .06 minutes instead of rounding up to .07.
the time calcs are not screwed up, you just need to sign in when you come back from lunch. if you sign in at 8:00am, then sign out for lunch at 12:00pm, then next sign out at 5:00pm to go home, the system sees that as 9 hours worked because you never signed back in from lunch (it thinks you signed in at 8am and left at 5pm). had you signed in at 1:00pm when returning from lunch, it would show 8 hours worked.
ken
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
Hi, when I check Hours Worked report, it is always off a few minutes (more) between check in and out times. The time is being displayed correctly on the top of the form as far as I can see. Any clues? Say I signed in at 7:27pm and then out at 7:31pm, it shows 0.06 instead of 0.04? THen when I sign out for "lunch" and then sign "out" again, the time counts the time in between as work time. The time calcs is all screwed up. Thanks.
signing in at 7:27 and signing out at 7:31 is 4 minutes; working 4 minutes is the same as working .067 hours. it's taken into account down to the milliseconds as to how long someone is punched in, so even though it displays as a 4 minute difference, it's probably actually somewhere between 3.5 and 4 minutes. that's why it displays as .06 hours instead of .07, i know that's not the answer to your question, but i wanted to explain why it displays .06 minutes instead of rounding up to .07.
the time calcs are not screwed up, you just need to sign in when you come back from lunch. if you sign in at 8:00am, then sign out for lunch at 12:00pm, then next sign out at 5:00pm to go home, the system sees that as 9 hours worked because you never signed back in from lunch (it thinks you signed in at 8am and left at 5pm). had you signed in at 1:00pm when returning from lunch, it would show 8 hours worked.
ken
Great! I didn't know the time was in milliseconds. That explains it :)
If someone forgets to sign back in from lunch or a break, isn't the system giving an unfair advantage by giving them full time for work?
Thanks.
Just another question on milliseconds:
I calculated in/out time to be exactly 22 minutes. I used an online milliseconds calculator and got .36667 (.36).
Although, on the time worked report it showed as .39. When I enter .39 in the calculator, I get 23.4 as the minutes.
Any clue why this is?
Thanks!