[Orgmode] Re: Clock logging -- possible to include seconds?

[Carsten Dominik]

On Dec 22, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Bill Powell wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Thanks again to y'all for org-mode. Here's a quick question: how hard
> would it be to include seconds in the clock logging? It may sound like
> a silly request, but I often have to work on two or three billable
> different projects in a day, sometimes switching back and forth
> between them. When you add up all those intervals for an invoice
> covering a month or more, counting those half and quarter
> minutes might add up to an additional hour or so of billable time.
>
> It's possible I'm just misunderstanding the org-mode algorithm, and
> that its rounding turns out to be almost as accurate over the long
> haul. Plus, many people expect to be billed by the half hour anyhow.
> But I time various projects for myself, too, so this is really an
> interest for my own work. What do you all think?
>
> Bill Powell

Hi Bill,

I would think that this will average away.  When clocking in,
Org only notices the full minutes.  If you are clocking in at
14:22:59 and out again 1 second later at 14:23:00 you will
cheat 59 seconds into the clocking interval and bill a whole
minute.  So this kind of *cheating* goes both ways and will
average out.

And yes, it really would seem strange to clock by the second :-)

- Carsten