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NAME
Timedot - hledger's human-friendly time logging format
DESCRIPTION
Timedot is a plain text format for logging dated, categorised quanti-
ties (of time, usually), supported by hledger. It is convenient for
approximate and retroactive time logging, eg when the real-time clock-
in/out required with a timeclock file is too precise or too interrup-
tive. It can be formatted like a bar chart, making clear at a glance
where time was spent.
Though called "timedot", this format is read by hledger as commodity-
less quantities, so it could be used to represent dated quantities
other than time. In the docs below we'll assume it's time.
FILE FORMAT
A timedot file contains a series of day entries. A day entry begins
with a date, and is followed by category/quantity pairs, one per line.
Dates are hledger-style simple dates (see hledger_journal(5)). Cate-
gories are hledger-style account names, optionally indented. As in a
hledger journal, there must be at least two spaces between the category
(account name) and the quantity.
Quantities can be written as:
o a sequence of dots (.) representing quarter hours. Spaces may op-
tionally be used for grouping and readability. Eg: .... ..
o an integral or decimal number, representing hours. Eg: 1.5
o an integral or decimal number immediately followed by a unit symbol
s, m, h, d, w, mo, or y, representing seconds, minutes, hours, days
weeks, months or years respectively. Eg: 90m. The following equiva-
lencies are assumed, currently: 1m = 60s, 1h = 60m, 1d = 24h, 1w =
7d, 1mo = 30d, 1y=365d.
Blank lines and lines beginning with #, ; or * are ignored. An exam-
ple:
# on this day, 6h was spent on client work, 1.5h on haskell FOSS work, etc.
2016/2/1
inc:client1 .... .... .... .... .... ....
fos:haskell .... ..
biz:research .
2016/2/2
inc:client1 .... ....
biz:research .
Or with numbers:
2016/2/3
inc:client1 4
fos:hledger 3
biz:research 1
Reporting:
$ hledger -f t.timedot print date:2016/2/2
2016/02/02 *
(inc:client1) 2.00
2016/02/02 *
(biz:research) 0.25
$ hledger -f t.timedot bal --daily --tree
Balance changes in 2016/02/01-2016/02/03:
|| 2016/02/01d 2016/02/02d 2016/02/03d
============++========================================
biz || 0.25 0.25 1.00
research || 0.25 0.25 1.00
fos || 1.50 0 3.00
haskell || 1.50 0 0
hledger || 0 0 3.00
inc || 6.00 2.00 4.00
client1 || 6.00 2.00 4.00
------------++----------------------------------------
|| 7.75 2.25 8.00
I prefer to use period for separating account components. We can make
this work with an account alias:
2016/2/4
fos.hledger.timedot 4
fos.ledger ..
$ hledger -f t.timedot --alias /\\./=: bal date:2016/2/4
4.50 fos
4.00 hledger:timedot
0.50 ledger
--------------------
4.50
Here is a sample.timedot.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs at http://bugs.hledger.org (or on the #hledger IRC channel
or hledger mail list)
AUTHORS
Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com> and contributors
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007-2016 Simon Michael.
Released under GNU GPL v3 or later.
SEE ALSO
hledger(1), hledger-ui(1), hledger-web(1), hledger-api(1),
hledger_csv(5), hledger_journal(5), hledger_timeclock(5), hledger_time-
dot(5), ledger(1)
http://hledger.org
hledger 1.15.2 September 2019 hledger_timedot(5)