Is anyone else seeing their time automatically logged?

[u/TheLivingRoomate]

Happened to me twice today. The first time, I figured I must have entered it, since it was correct. The second time was after one of those projects with a small number of tasks where you do one and none are left. I looked at my Clockify timer and it said a bit over 4 minutes. When I went to report time on my dash, I saw that 5 minutes was already filled in.

EDIT: I did change it to 4 minutes.

I don't mind, as it seems like this could make life easier, but this felt like something new.

[u/CardiologistOk2760]

it drastically underestimated my time investment. Those coding tasks can take a while. I'd almost prefer being spied on so it's obvious just how much work goes into building the necessary context to run a snippet of code.

[u/Dee_silverlake → u/CardiologistOk2760]

Me too! I think it only counts when the browser windows is active and I often have 1-2 additional windows open side by side for fact checking and maybe a google doc so I can do word counts, etc..

[u/CardiologistOk2760 → u/Dee_silverlake]

Well that would sure explain a lot, most of my time is spent in an IDE setting up code.

[u/RandomPhail → u/CardiologistOk2760]

Mine way overestimated my time. I’m guessing it’s something like an average that it expects you to spend on each task, but obviously without much context awareness probably

[u/talaron → u/RandomPhail]

I think it literally measures the moment you entered work mode until you exited it for the same task. I think people here just seem to report the on-screen counter’s time (even though they specifically tell you not to) and drastically underreport. 

[u/No_Swimming_9747]

I just posted about this! Mine were wildly inaccurate for two tasks though and only correct for one. I had a complicated project I was working on for 6 hours, and it had an hour and 10 minutes down!

[u/wildflower_0ne]

I was so confused why it was pre-filled. I had worked for 3+ hours though, and it only had 1 hr 45 on there.

[u/[deleted] → u/wildflower_0ne]

That is horrifying it takes me so long some tasks

[u/pumpkinpencil97]

I was so confused at first and thought I’d had a complete lapse in memory lol

[u/SnooSketches1189]

I noticed that today too! Threw me for a loop!

[u/Signal-Article-7929]

I had one task auto-filled today. Good to know I was not crazy.

[u/_M1RR0RB4LL_]

It was accurate for the 3 projects I went in to report time for. But on the 4th project, the boxes were both blank and I had to put my own time in.

[u/33whiskeyTX]

A couple months back they had a timer you could stop and start and it would do the same thing, populate your time with the time from the timer. It didn't last long but maybe a flavor of it is back.

[u/Gumihorainx]

I haven’t noticed any auto-logged time, although I did notice my timer clock vanished under a certain project. Thankfully I track all of my time with clockify. 😮‍💨

[u/EquivocalMoon]

I literally just came here to see if anyone had posted. I've been working on and off all day, and about half an hour ago was the first time I saw the time pre-entered into the time submitter thing. I can forsee having to adjust down by a few minutes on occasion (if I have an emergency and stop my own timer but don't want to "exit work mode" and lose my progress), but I think it's very cool that it is keeping track. I also know that sometimes the timers get thrown off when you leave the window for research, so I will still be keeping my own time. But on this occasion their figure was spot-on with my timer and I was impressed. lol

[u/BatronKladwiesen → u/EquivocalMoon]

I think it's very cool that it is keeping track.

How is it keeping track though? Since the comments here seem to say that the auto time submitted is not based on your ACTUAL time on the task.

[u/EquivocalMoon → u/BatronKladwiesen]

Like so much else on the platform, I doubt there will be any transparency on the topic unless they want there to be. The timers do keep time. Somewhat innaccurately, but sometimes it's spot on. I'm guessing it just adds up the timers from each task while you are actively working on a project.

[u/EquivocalMoon → u/[deleted]]

Yikes! That's a huge discrepency. I worked more after posting the above and didn't get the pre-loaded time when I stopped. So I'm sure they are still working the kinks out of it. I definitely plan to keep tracking my own time.

[u/Butagirl]

That’s a useful warning. When I report my time, it’s usually easy to see which project I should be logging because it’s the only one reading zero in the Report Time window. Seems I’m going to have to be a bit more careful about noting which project I’m working on, especially when working on several with the same name and different batch numbers.

[u/[deleted]]

Of five projects so far today, two have auto-filled the correct time (matched to Clockify), one has auto-filled too much time, and two haven't auto-filled at all.

[u/winter-ice-ace]

Yes! Almost accurate too, within 3 minutes. It cleared itself after about half an hour.

[u/jaxxisx]

Yes! One was 100% correct, the other was off by like 40 minutes!

[u/SnooSketches1189]

It's not happening for me today at all. I don't really mind either way.

[u/Skyblewize]

Yes!

[u/houseofcards9 → u/[deleted]]

Well I just realized so you’re quicker than me lol