[kplato] Duration less than a day? (was: request)
Dag Andersen
danders at get2net.dk
Thu Nov 4 10:03:47 CET 2004
On Torsdag 04 november 2004 09:27, Mark Tombs wrote:
> On Thursday 04 November 2004 09.23, Dag Andersen wrote:
> > On Onsdag 03 november 2004 21:56, Claus Agerskov wrote:
> > > On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Mark Tombs wrote:
> > > > Can the duration be less than a day? Claus wrote :
> > > >
> > > > "Duration is the calendar time of a task."
> > > >
> > > > If a task starts and finishes on the same day, it has a
> > > > duration of 1.
> >
> > How do you handle tasks with estimates that isn't multiple of
> > days? In general, how do you calculate a project like this?
>
> Thats where I think I and, it seems, the rest of the world have a
> different terminology ;) For me, Duration != work. The hours,
Ok, I understand that, but eventually somebody is going to do the work
so I'm trying to figure out the connection.
> estimate, work, whatever you call it, is seperate from the
> duration. A task can start and finish on the same day, have
> duration of 1, but an estimate of 1 minute, if you like. Now that I
Hmm, so in this case the resource doing the work will have 1day-1min
free time, or a workload of 1min/1day?
You probably don't use tasklinks then, you define all 'dependencies'
by setting start- and/or endtimes?
What do you do if you have 2 tasks that depends on each other but that
can be done in 1 day?
> write it like that, it doesn't seem to make much sense, but its how
> I've always worked. Maybe I should just be quiet now, as everyone
> else seems to disagree with me.
No, no, if you are working that way, it must make sense, probably
others do the same somewhere.
We'll see if we can incorporate different ways of working without
making things impossible to understand.
>
> > > Or?
> > >
> > > Duration is the time period from start timestamp to the end
> > > timestamp and can be measured in the time unit you want.
> >
> > That's how I see it, too.
> >
> > > In some projects minutes can be crucial but in others months or
> > > - years even - are usable units for duration.
> > >
> > > Personal I would have the duration saved in seconds so I can
> > > choose the time unit I want when I will see the duration.
> >
> > It's saved in milliseconds, in a 64 bit int.
> >
> > > The most enjoyable greetings
>
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