Time logs - how do I log time in hours instead of days?

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Hi there - I am an artist and I need to log my time. Currently our time logs are set to days instead of hours - which doesn’t really work very well because usually we have to break down out log into a weird decimal if the time is less than an 8 hour day. I know for a fact it is possible to record time in hours instead, but i cant see anywhere how to change this. please let me know so we can make everyone’s lives so much easier.
thank you !!!

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Hey @Brad_Betts—welcome to the forum!

I moved your post to the #shotgun category so that it gets the right :eyes: on it.

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awesome! thanks!

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Hi,

You should ask your admin to have a look into your site preferences, especially the ‘scheduling’ part :slight_smile:

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thanks for the response! so -If this were to be changed on a project that is already running - could that cause any chaos or problens across the project? woudl there be a way to mitigate that ?

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Hi Brad! There are two things you can do without needing to change that site pref:

  1. In the web UI, you can enter any value like “4 hours” and it will automatically interpret it into whatever the site pref is tracking. So in the below example when I entered this time log it converted to 0.5 days.

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  1. In Shotgun Create, you also get a time log UI which accepts hours by default, no matter your site pref. If need be, you could also enter something like “2d” and it will still work.

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DENNIS!!! THIS IS AMAZING!!! THANKYOU !!!

WOOOOOO!!!

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This is wonder. However due to some API and tools we have, we need to query WHAT are the sites preferences for the time log durations.

Hopefully this is a simply query.
Currently there has been a request to change the site preferences from hours to days.
To be able to calculate this information, or make this change, knowing whether it is days or hours, and what a day is defined as is important.

Just haven’t attempted to query site preference information previously.
With Python API, how would you do this?

EUREKA! - So as I was typing this, gave me some ideas to do some hunting, and found it.

  • One you open your session
    SG = shotgun_api3.Shotgun(blah, blah blah)
  • Then use the sessions preferences_read() function
    prefs = SG.preferences_read()
  • Now you have
    prefs[‘duration_units’] (‘hours’, ‘days’)
    prefs[‘hours_per_day’]

Hopefully this helps someone that had the same inquiry.

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