Hi,
When reading the log, skydemon sometimes calculated the flight and or log times inaccurately. Attached you see a picture where this happened for the log time, it can happen for the flight time also.
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You see that the time from log start to log stop should be 1:40, however it says 1:39. I assume, this is because the log started e.g. at 13:59:59 Z and stopped at 15:39:01 Z. So technically, the program calcuted the times correctly. However, nobody works like that. When I write the log start/stop times (which equal block times in my case) into my personal flight book, I need to know the minutes in between.

So, please make the software to work ‌‌precisely on the minute, not on the second.

Regards,
Johnny‌‌‌

There is no calculation error. We simply display items to the nearest minute, or round them as necessary.

If you require sub-minute precision of output, you may wish to use a different product.

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Tim Dawson - 4/10/2017 2:41:30 PM

There is no calculation error. We simply display items to the nearest minute, or round them as necessary.

If you require sub-minute precision of output, you may wish to use a different product.

Seriously? I see even two errors! Tim, it's funny to see how often you advise me to use a different product. Basically for every bug report I post. Is that your way of saying "Stop arguing about it, we won't change it anyway"? :-)

Please, don't get me wrong, in my eyes SkyDemon is 98% perfect. That's why I use it regularly. And thats why I take the time to write here and point out the other 2% which are missing in my eyes.

In the log overview, you state all times with the seconds cut off. So, why not using these cutted times also for the calculation of the logged time? All I ask you in this case is to change one line of code. Right now, you do the following for calculating the logged time:
RoundToMinute(TimeDiff($TimeStart, $TimeEnd));
I ask you to change it to this:
TimeDiff(CutOffSeconds($TimeStart), CutOffSeconds($TimeEnd));
That's it.

‌However, this will allow me (and others) to take the log overview at the end of the day and to write the times and durations into my personal and the aircrafts log book without having to recalculate all the durations. That would be a great help!

Please reconsider changing it. I, and probably also others like JanR, really would appreciate that.

Thanks,
Johnny
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