# Time reporting by hours not days

**URL:** <https://forum.asana.com/t/time-reporting-by-hours-not-days/503134>\
**Category:** Ask the Community\
**Tags:** time-tracking, reporting\
**Created:** [9 August 2023 14:40 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/time-reporting-by-hours-not-days/503134 "2023-08-09T14:40:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Christine\_Forbes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/christine_forbes/32/13413_2.png) [@Christine\_Forbes](https://forum.asana.com/u/Christine_Forbes)\
**Post date:** [9 August 2023 14:40 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/time-reporting-by-hours-not-days/503134/1 "2023-08-09T14:40:25Z")

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When I’m looking at time reports please change it to cumulative hours and don’t convert it to days. NO ONE resources or reports by 24-hour days.

I don’t want to do math when I’m looking at dashboards to understand them and I shouldn’t have to roll over every slice of a donut to get the actual total since it’s been rounded in the total.

It’s not helpful to see that someone worked 1 day when it’s actually 30.75 hours. 🙏

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Sather](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/richard_sather/32/276096_2.png) [@Richard\_Sather](https://forum.asana.com/u/Richard_Sather)\
**Post date:** [9 August 2023 18:49 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/time-reporting-by-hours-not-days/503134/2 "2023-08-09T18:49:05Z")

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Hi @Christine_Forbes 👋  
There’s actually a workaround to this, as long as you are on the Business plan to take advantage of the new Advanced Editor for Formula fields!

> [@Number formatting of "estimated time" in charts in hours instead of days](https://forum.asana.com/t/number-formatting-of-estimated-time-in-charts-in-hours-instead-of-days/304502/19):
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> Note: Not a solution but marked as such to elevate a key reply For all Business, Advanced & Enterprise users (who have the [Advanced Editor for Formulas](https://forum.asana.com/t/formula-custom-field-with-advanced-editor/481803)), there is a workaround for you! star_struck For all your projects that you are using Asana’s native Estimated or Actual hours fields, do the following for either field: The examples below are for Estimated time, but you can follow exactly the same for Actual time field also. To get results in hh:mm [Create a new Formula custom f…](https://asana.com/guide/help/premium/formula-custom-fields#gl-advanced-custom-fields)

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/system/32/276370_2.png) [@system](https://forum.asana.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [6 October 2023 17:42 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/time-reporting-by-hours-not-days/503134/3 "2023-10-06T17:42:04Z")

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Closed on 6 October 2023 17:42 UTC

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