David Matten
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An error occurred while saving the comment Granted, the requestor is essentially asking for a user option, as not everyone would want it to work this way (and you'd need a way to determine what is a "remote" connection - a list of programs, etc), but I agree with Martin's comment. I don't think a feature to detect the manner of control of the current session is necessary, and is probably out of scope for the application itself. You could instead approach your need from the other end - excluding the activity of your local session based on tracking the use a remoting "client" app. This is much more straightforward, and doesn't require recoding of ManicTime, or for it to keep track of special treatment for every new terminal program that is created (RDP, VNC, Citrix, TeamViewer, ...)
From my experience dealing with this in the ordinary course of my own work, I let both instances record the activity as they will, then handle the accounting with Auto Tagging (via CustomTitle parsing).
I marked any activity using a remote access software (RDP, Citrix, et al) as "Remote" in my local terminal's timeline. Then the remote machine could record the detailed work that I was performing within ManicTime. When generating any report, I just excluded the "Remote" tag.
There were cases where I did not have the ability to run ManicTime on a remote machine, so those sessions (as distinguished by CustomTitle) were AutoTagged differently, so I could account for the time in the local session.
There are variants of this depending on your use case, of course.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I would use this similarly to an Android version, fine if it feeds to a ManicTime Server, but would need to work in Offline mode, uploading when connected to a Server
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An error occurred while saving the comment Isn't this just taken care of when you create a report, which will basically ignore the small contributions when you add up the ones you do actually want?
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An error occurred while saving the comment the request http://support.manictime.com/forums/222041-feature-requests/suggestions/12890121-display-in-utc
should be merged into this one. This is a better description of the problem, and "solution 1" here is probably the best approach
An error occurred while saving the comment This should be merged into http://support.manictime.com/forums/222041-feature-requests/suggestions/31028293-show-the-correct-timeline-when-travelling-to-diffe
which actually fewer, but a comparable number of votes (possibly double-votes), but is a better approach to handling the underlying problem with the timelines.
An error occurred while saving the comment What I mean is, it should not be an issue of "display" in UTC. That is not terribly useful, itself. If the timestamps are recorded and handled properly, display in local time should work fine. It is the serialization and DB storage that should be dealt with in UTC, let the local time display take care of itself.
An error occurred while saving the comment Another place where this may come into play would be timelines sent to a Server from machines in different timezones. (Machines in use at the same time), as well as Calendar timelines from different people. They will be incoherent.
This surprises me that it ended up this way. From working in my field, we learned long ago that recording things in local time will inevitably bite you. You can capture, manipulate, and display values in local time (probably preferable), but they should be converted to UTC for any storage or serialization.
Beware of the serialization of the .NET DateTime object, though. Test the behavior with those "local" boolean fields, beware of defaulting valued when deserializing from both the wire, and from the DB. -
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An error occurred while saving the comment and this request needs a more descriptive title...
An error occurred while saving the comment if you are starting the application from the command line yourself (as opposed to it being invoked from a place you do not control), then you can use the "start" command to provide the window title of your choosing, in which case you can then use the CustomTitle feature to pick out whatever you want.
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An error occurred while saving the comment It would be nice if there were a way to get GMail itself to render its current labels into the page title, but that does not seem to exist, yet.
Perhaps via a Chrome extension, or something? Make a contribution to the wider software community in the process of improving your own solution?
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8 votes
Where would these tags show in Google Calendar? Google Calendar does not have tags.