Invoice Action Hours Quantity Miscalculation

[R. Victor Klassen]

It’s a wee bit cumbersome, but you can enter 22 hours and 59 minutes as 22+59/60 hours and GnuCash will do the arithmetic for you.

> On Dec 29, 2016, at 8:25 PM, david.carlson.417 at gmail.com wrote:
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>    I have seen several timekeeping applications that include the note "0.1 hour = 6 minutes"
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> ------ Original message------From: Geert JanssensDate: Thu, Dec 29, 2016 2:16 PMTo: gnucash-user at gnucash.org;Cc: Gurdeep Singh (Guru);Subject:Re: Invoice Action Hours Quantity Miscalculation
> Op donderdag 29 december 2016 23:37:52 CET schreef Gurdeep Singh (Guru):> Hello All,> > > I am using the Hours action in the invoice to bill my customer as per the> number of hours. Please see attached screenshot.> > > Taking these hours into consideration:> > 22.59, 9.46, 1.14, 4.04> > > The calculation of these hours should be 38 Hrs and 03 Mins. But the> invoice calculates it as 37 Hrs and 23 Mins.> > > It seems that the calculation is not done properly as time is calculated 1> qty = 60 mins, but it seems like its calculating 1 qty = 100 mins.> > > Can this be fixed? Is there a setting for this as I did not see anything in> the preferences or properties.> > > Thanks.> > [image: Inline image 1]Hi,Unfortunately GnuCash is not aware of time with respect to amounts on an invoice. The action field is just a free form field to help you express what's on the invoice. But the numbers are always just numbers. So if you want gnucash to calculate the proper total amounts on your inv!
> oice, you have to recalculate your hours to decimal, so you'd have to enter 1 hour and 30 minutes as 1.5 hours. That is, convert the minutes by multiplying by 100 and dividing by 60.Regards,Geert_______________________________________________gnucash-user mailing listgnucash-user at gnucash.orghttps://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user-----Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
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