Now let's take it to the next level and make it work for worldwide organizations. The product works great otherwise and huge benefit for us. I would argue this is the biggest issues for ManicTime right now. Regarless, as more and more of us work from various worldwide locations, this simply needs to be addressed logically and failing to adhere to UTC is no longer possible for a product such as ManicTime. For desktop users if they move locations then the statistics are probably less important. who arrived to work the earliest" could be confusing with multi-time-zone groups but this goes back to the Server setups. We don't move our server so I don't see a huge need.Īs for users of just the desktop product then if the user changes their timezone, how about displaying a warning? Ultimately I certainly understand how statistical reports based on "e.g. So changing the server timezone would be the only situation we'd have a problem. In my case the statistic reports are mostly generated by servers. Clearly the server is taking the phone data and improperly modifying it and NOT storing in proper UTC.Īs for changing timezones and the affect on statistics. Those people's phone time lines must be all messed up. I'm sure I'm not the only person traveling with their phone, or what about people who live near a timezone border and their phone automatically adjusts by 1 hour. I don't know if it's the ManicTime Server or Android client that is causing this issue. This is clearly a bug and requires immediately attention. My phone data is being misrepresented in the Windows desktop client as happening 12 hours later than it really did. My phone times are clearly being stored with the wrong UTC offset. If ManicTime really does store everything in UTC and only presents it to us via the client then why is there a difference between these timelines. Sometimes its only five hours (Germany and USA don't change to/from Daylight Saving Time on the same schedule). Also Germany isn't always six hours off from Eastern USA. This is very confusing and difficult to account for. 08:00 in Germany is actually 02:00 in the Eastern USA. NOTE: I have a client/server deployment with ManicTime Server in Eastern USA.įor examplem my 08:00 phone activity in Germany shows up on my USA based ManicTime server as 14:00. So when I look at my timelines all my phone activity is offset, but not like you would expect. My office computer is set to the Eastern USA. I use ManicTime on my Android phone to track phone calls and locations. Why? I live in Germany UTC+1 however my employment is actually in the Eastern USA UTC-5. Even if this type of functionality was intentional, I agree it's simply a BUG. As commented below by John on March 2016 - yes over three years ago, "To me it's a bug.". For those of you who will try it, we would love some feedback.This needs to be fixed. We suggest you try it, especially if you are using a lot of Adobe or 3d modelling apps. So far, I cant figure out a way to reboot users if their idle time is over an hour fo. In the System Info tool, you can see user sessions with idle time. In the restart command, you can restart PCs, prompt users, or restart if no one is logged in. If you enable this in Settings, Tracking, then ManicTime will try to get full path of the document opened. Reboot PCs if Users have idle time over x hours. We were not successful, but in the process we added some code which could help some users. Improve this and add full path document tracking to most applications without writing special plugins for them. Most of the time it only gets a file name, not full path. ManicTime tracks documents with plugins written for specific application. You can also export to Excel from command line with "/excel" option. csv import, so now we added a true Excel export.Īll exports in ManicTime now support Excel format. To choose format, use the dropdown menu in Save dialog. csv, thinking that would be enough for Excel or any other app. To toggle Mini window, click on gray icon to the left of minimize button. You can now minimize ManicTime window to a small strip which is always on top. To edit alerts, click on Alerts at the top, then Edit alerts. If you hover over the panel, detailed information about alerts is shown. Once the alert is triggered, a notification will pop up. On the toolbar, there is an alert panel which will tell you how many alerts are under the limit (check icon) and how many are over the limit (cross icon). In Create alert window you can choose settings for the alert. To create an alert, click on a specific timeline to select it, then right click on a group in bottom right part of the screen. Notify me when autotag Browsing exceeded 1 hour. Notify me when I have used Firefox for more than 2 hours.Notify me when I have used Facebook for more than 30 minutes.Alerts allow you to get a notification after you have used some application or web site for more than the time limit you have set.
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