**As an** employee

**I want to** enter a start and end time when creating time entries

**so that** my company can deliver detailed time sheets to my customers

### Use case

Some customers require detailed time sheets when I bill them. They do not only want to see how long I have been working on a task, but also when I started and ended. Start and end-time can be very important for interventions outside normal business hours, because they are sometimes billed at a higher rate.

### Current Workaround

I defined to string custom fields with a regex, so that it is possible to enter a start and end time. That works fine, although there is no logic and no validation behind it. Begin of the deletion

End of the deletion And in the standard cost report they are not visible.

### Begin of the insertionUser proposalEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion ProposalEnd of the deletion

* Something like this (screen shot from my own client, so that's why it's not familiar):


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* in case creating time entries that pass over midnight is important, it could look like outlook appointments:


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* Whether Start/End time is required, should be configurable, preferably on system and project level


### Begin of the insertionAcceptance criteria

* Transform the dialog to Primer and add primer forms.

* Add the fields for start date, start time, finish date and finish time, break time and total worked time.

* The total worked time should be automatically calculated if start and finish time are introduced.

* Break time should always be extracted from the total.

* The user can still manually enter work time by filling the mandatory fields (User, Start date and Total worked time).

* The selection of dates will remain the date flatpicker. For the selection of time the 24h time flatpicker will be user.

* Ensure the dialog includes the fields in all cases:

* Log time from work package

* Log time from _My time spent_ widget in _My page_

* Editing a time logged from the _Time and costs_ reports

* When using the track time functionality inside of a work package add the time when the user clicked the start button as Start time and the stop time when the user Stops the tracking.


### Out of scope

* Redesign or improve the times and costs pages.


###End of the insertion Implementation

* Begin of the insertionStoreEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion storeEnd of the deletion start and end date-time in the database (easy for finding double-bookings for a single employee) or store start date-time and duration (easier implementation when start and end time is not used and for migration of existing data) Begin of the insertion


### Figma and visuals

https://www.figma.com/design/xRFTkBJYxQJxwAf9fd3oM1/Log-time?node-id=310-6194End of the insertion