When I clock in at work (10:30 pm), the time clock reads 2250. Similarly, when it’s a quarter to eleven, it will display 2275.
Can I program my iPhone’s clock feature to display in this format?
I hope not. Why would you want that?
Should’t you be able to set the display for 24 hour clock in the settings?
There’s probably an ap.
So far, all I’ve found is full decimal time-10 hours-100 minutes-100 seconds.
From makeuseof.com:
Use a 24-Hour Clock on Your iPhone Lock Screen
While the steps above help customize how your clock looks, you can also make it appear different or more preferable by switching to the 24-hour time format. To do this, follow these steps:
- Go to Settings > General on your iPhone.
- Now, tap on Date & Time.
- Here, simply toggle on 24-Hour Time, and you’re set.
Look at the OP’s example. The hours are 24 format but the minutes are expressed as a 00-99 decimal (10:30pm reads out as 2250) which is weird as hell.
When I clock out for lunch, I get fifty clicks (half an hour). I CAN calculate the minutes and set an alarm for twenty-seven minutes (giving me three minutes to get back to the time clock), but it would be more straightforward to just set the alarm for forty-five clicks.
Ew. NOT adequate to my needs.
Where do you work that they use decimal time?
I’m an iOS developer and took this as a challenge. I have the display working and need to add an alarm. Give me a few days and I can release an app that does this. I’ll post when I have a beta that you can try.
USPS.
Thanks very much.
FWIW, I found two apps for iPhone.
My Swing Log is 3 bucks, but it looks a lot more polished than DeciTime which is free.
Looking forward to seeing Bag_Of_Mostly_Water’s app.
I’m profoundly baffled - in what way is it easier to set an alarm for 45 units rather than 27 units? I could sort of understand it if your break time was (say) 30 clicks, meaning you would have to convert that into minutes with a slightly trickier calculation (let’s see, 30% of 60 minutes, so 18 minutes - right). But I assume your employer has recognised that issue by ensuring breaks are in increments of 50 (or possibly 25) ‘clicks’, obviating the need for any calculation - all you need to remember (and evidently, you do) is that 50 clicks = 30 minutes.
It’s not that weird. I’ve seen it used as long as 40 years ago but I’ve never seen it used for anything other than timeclocks. The idea is to make paying for minutes more precise and also easier to calculate - it’s much easier to determine how to pay someone for working 8.3 hours than to determine how much to pay them for working 8 hours and 23 minutes. This is why most timekeeping systems that use 60 minute hours round to a quarter hour in one way or another. Either punching in at 8:06 rounds to 8:00 and 8:08 rounds to 8:15 or working 8 hours and five minutes gets you paid for 8 hours while 8 hours and ten minutes get you paid for 8 hours and fifteen minutes.
God I hope there’s not an app for that. Do you know how many times I had to teach middle schoolers that 2 hours 30 minutes is NOT 2.30 hours. Way too many times.
When I worked at a restaurant the time clock did tenths of an hour (8.0 to 9.9) – we got a new time clock that did minutes but then the payroll person had to do the conversion so we went back to a tenths of an hour time clock.
We would sometimes punch the back of our time cards to be sure it had reached .5 or whatever.
Brian
Fair enough. Hope you find an acceptable app.
The answer to the OP’s original question is “CentWatch”, which is an iOS app that is tailored for Rally Competitors, in which minutes are divided into “cents” for scoring purposes.
Best of luck to the OP!
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