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Hour and Minute Formats Follow

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Aaron
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Easily customize your account's displayed time with the hour and minute settings. Use the minute format setting to switch all totals and reports between standard (HH:MM) and decimal formats, displaying time in tenths or hundredths. The hour format setting lets you choose between a 24-hour (military) time format and a 12-hour AM/PM format, giving you flexibility to meet your company's preferences.

Notes:

  • Time cards will still display the standard hour and minute the punch took place, only timecard totals are converted to decimal.
  • When you are adding up hours worked for individual dates and comparing them to the totals, you must convert the minutes to decimals before attempting to add them up on a calculator.  ex. 1:30 + 4:45 does not equal 5.75 hours and 5:75 isn't proper either. The correct conversion and sum must be done as follows: 1.50 + 4.75 = 6.25 hours or 6:15 (converted back to minutes). 
  • Using a decimal format will involve some rounding when calculating total minutes worked.  Use the standard minute format to see totals with the exact number of minutes worked.

 

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To edit your account's hour and minute settings:

  1. Click on the Settings tab near the top of the page.
  2. To edit the hour format the system will use, click edit, then choose an option from the drop-down menu.
  3. To Edit the minute format the system will use, click edit, then choose an option from the drop-down menu.

 

Hour Format Options

  • Standard - This setting will display a 1:00 PM punch as 1:00 PM
  • Military - This setting will display a 1:00 PM punch as 13:00

 

Minute Format Options 

  • Standard - This setting will display time in HH:MM format with minutes from :01-:59. With this option selected 1:30 will display as 1:30.
  • Hundredths - This setting will display accrued minutes in decimal format with 2 decimal places, with this option selected the system will display 8 hours and 30 minutes as 8.50 hours, making it easier to check totals with a standard calculator. Many payroll systems prefer this format for ease of calculation.
  • Tenths -This setting will display accrued minutes in decimal format with 1 decimal place, with this option selected the system will display 8 hours and 30 minutes as 8.5 hours.

 

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