Re: [Planner] Tasks duration units

[Tom Miller <trm xpedion com>]

Folks,

    And just to get further detailed, there aren't always 60 sec
    per minute, depending on leap-somethings (centuries?).

    Tom

On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 06:10, Andre Costa wrote:
> 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