Re: [Planner] Tasks duration units

[Andre Costa <costa tecgraf puc-rio br>]

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:02:38 +0200 (CEST)
Claus Agerskov <ca chbs dk> wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Andre Costa wrote:
> 
> > planner accepts 'w' (for weeks) and 'd' (days -- the default). Any
> > special reason for not having 'm' (or 'M') for months?
> 
> Maybe the reason is that the months does have the same number of (working) 
> days.
> 
> M or m could also be minutes.

Yeah, I know, but IMHO measuring minutes is too small-scale for project
management purposes.

> Maybe i for minutes instead:
> 
> y for year (365 days or 256 working days)
> m for month (30 days or 21 working days) 
> w for week (7 days or 5 working days)
> d for day (24 hours or 8 working hours)
> h for hour (1/8th day)

Ok -- 'h', 'd' and 'w' are currently accepted. I doubt 'y' could be
useful (too large-scale), but YMMV.

> i for minute (1/60th hour)
> s for second (1/60th minutes)

_seconds_?? =)

> c for custom time periode like short shifts (6 hours) or quarter (1/4th 
>   hour)

This could be useful, indeed, for groups with odd work loads.

Best,

Andre

-- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa
(costa tecgraf puc-rio br)