Duration format
How to enter a duration
The duration
field supports entering data in the following formats:
Time span
- Format:
{hours}:{minutes}
,{hours}:{minutes}:{seconds}
- Description: Seconds are optional, leading zero can be skipped, overflow is supported for every field
- Examples:
2:27
= 2 hours and 27 minutes,3:143:13
= 5 hours and 23 minutes and 13 seconds
Time interval (ISO 8601)
- Format:
{hours}h
,{hours}h{minutes}m
,{hours}h{minutes}m{seconds}s
- Description: Each section is optional, overflow is supported for every field, unit identifier can be written in lower and uppercase, seconds are supported but will be removed with activated rounding
- Examples:
2h
= 2 hours,147m
= 2 hours and 27 minutes,3h14m
= 3 hours and 14 minutes
Decimal duration
- Format:
{hours}
,{hours,minutes in decimal}
,{hours.minutes in decimal}
- Description: Duration in hours, for decimal separator both
.
and,
are supported, minutes need to be given as decimal portion (eg. 30 minutes = 0.5) - Examples:
1,5
= 1 hour and 30 minutes,2
= 2 hours
Duration drop-down
If activated in System > Settings, the duration field has a dropdown.
The drop-down allows for simple selection of a duration, which will be entered in Time span
format.