"the rest" arithmetic

Today, with only 37 minutes recorded, I found it strange that "the rest" was the 4th tallest, especially considering only 8 apps had been used. It shows 2 minutes and 49 seconds. When I looked at the graph later, it was reporting baout 3 minutes in "the rest!" when i had only 11 apps and 40 secopnds in number 11.

Later I had 1:32 total
1:28 in top 10
0:03:29 in "the rest"
yet app number 11 shows 40 seconds
adding up the ALL APPS AND SITES, I get
1 hour 28 minutes and 40 seconds which jives with the TOP TEN
it seems there is sone slippage in the microseconds
what happens to a 5-10 secopnd gap between records in the log files? Do they end up in "others?" Could that be the source of the arithmetic errors?

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  • TonyEMPLOYEE
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    Tony, Official Rep, replied on January 25, 2008 17:12

    Hrm. "The Rest" bar is new, but it's based on an calculation we've been using since almost day 1 (the little bit of text below the top graph on the dashboard that says "the rest"). This is the first time I've heard of issues like this.

    This morning, I took a look when I was a few minutes (and a few apps) into the day, and couldn't find anything peculiar. Digging in a bit:

    Issue 1 that caught my eye: You had only 8 apps which had been uses and it had a "the rest" bar/# showing? It shouldn't show that bar or # unless it has more than 10 recorded apps or sites. I can't get it to do that for me. If you can get this to happen again, I'd love a screenshot to help us pin it down (team@rescuetime.com).

    Regarding the slipped seconds... We're rounding to the nearest second, so slipped seconds should not be an issue. What's a larger issue, but still small in the grand scheme of things is that we have to wait 2 minutes before we declare you "idle", so you'll always have SLIGHTLY higher numbers for the last thing you do before getting up for 2+ mins. The log files that we store are semi-readable-- you can hunt them up on your computer if you're curious.

    The Rest is calculated as the sum of all entities for that period minus the top 10.

    Can you tell me what browser(s) and operating system you use?
     
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  • Guy
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    Guy replied on January 25, 2008 17:20

    Yes I know "the rest" has been there from the beginning and now that it is visual, id did catch my eye.

    I am aware fo the 2-minute thing and I do not micromanage - 2 minutes is good. What I was referring to was the time between "end of record x" and "start fo record x+1". Sometimes there are a few seonds or even minutes when we are idle 2 minutes and I wonder if any of those get included accieentally in the totals.

    Can you grab my first log file upload from Friday AM and rebuild it to a graph?

    I'll try to rememebr to get an early day screenshot monday and I'll forward by email.

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