Hi folks. I am working on a time tracker app and really need some help.
What I want to have is two date/time picker elements where the user can select start date and time for a project and then end date and time for that project. Based on those dates and times I would like to have an output which will be the number of working hours between those two dates.
So lets say my working days are Mon-Friday 9:00 to 18:00 - so I have 5 working days and each day is 9 working hours.
So if a user picks start date to be a Friday at 11:00 and end date to be Tuesday 16:00 the result that I need is 23 hours (because I exclude weekend and also I don’t want to count hours outside of working hours)
Please any ideas on how to do this will be extremely appreciated !!!
No offense to one of the best Bubblers out there, but I think it’s going to be more complicated than what Jared suggested. First off, can we assume a user’s working days/hours won’t always be Monday through Friday from 9am to 6pm? Also, is it possible for a user to include Saturday and Sunday in their working days and exclude two other days of the week?
In order to do what you described, I think you might have to store each day and its associated hours that a user works as a separate thing in a data type so you can use those things to figure out partial hours on days when the entire span of a user’s working hours is not covered. To take weekends out of the mix, you could think about doing something like what I described in this tip I wrote a few years ago, but maybe someone knows a much better way to do that.
Anyway, unless I am missing something, I think this one’s a bit tricky, and the stuff I threw out there is really just food for thought at this point.
