The clock at work counts 100 minutes as 1 hour instead 60 minutes?!?

Question

My company is using an internet network to record our time in and time out and our total working hours each shift. The interesting thing is i notice the digital clock is counting 100 minutes as 1 hour instead 60 minutes as 1 hour! There are a lot of times i see my working hours by the end of day is 7 hours 65 minutes, 7 hours 89 minutes then i would wait 11 minutes more to make it up to 99 minutes then the working hour will round up to 8 hours instead 7 hours 89 minutes. Anyone can tell me anything about this funcky timing?

Answer 1

the clock is not measuring minutes. It is giving you the time in hours and 100ths of an hour. It is easier to calculate your pay this way

ps we are not paying you to hang around the time clock for 11 hundredths of an hour (6min and 36sec)

Answer 2

my mom's work has that too.
it's the same thing though...
6:30 = 6:50
1:15 = 1: 25
2:45 = 2: 75

If you think of it in quarters it's easier to figure out
It doesn't really take 100 minutes to change, it kind of goes at a faster pace to keep up with the regular 60 base clock... good luck!

Answer 3

No, those aren't minutes, they're 100ths of an hour - makes it cleaner to calculate pay for partial hours.

If you don't believe me, next time you're standing there waiting for the 11 units of time to go by to get to the full hour, look at your watch - it'll be more like 7 minutes, not 11.

If it really had 100 minutes per hour, by the time your 8 hours were up it would be 800 minutes, or over 13 hours by your watch. Think about it.....

Answer 4

I've often wondered why it's not 100 seconds per minute, 100 minutes per hour, and probably 10 hours per day(100 would make for way too fast of clocks). Great question.

Answer 5

That's a timekeeping system working on units instead of minutes.

For example, as on any employment agency timecard on which you'd manually write in your hours, if you worked one-half hour over on an otherwise normal day, you'd record it as 8.5 hours.

Just keep in mind that with this system, 1/4 hour = .25, 1/2 hour = .5, 3/4 hour = .75, etc.

Answer 6

Many payroll systems are set up this way, to calculate time in metric measurements. This makes it easier to calculate payroll without using a separate program to "translate" the time into tenths of hours. Don't worry - it's legitimate.

Answer 7

I've never heard of it until now but I found stuff on the net about it. I guess it's called decimal/metric time. ↓Check link below↓

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time
http://www.geocities.com/malibu_malv/metric/metricclock13.html

Answer 8

hey our clock at work was doing that to,..i pretty sure it is set on military time and your boss needs to have the time clock people come change it:)_

Answer 9

Are they trying to get you to stay there longer than you are supposed to be?