Hi Toggl Community,
I’d like to ask about the time format used in reports.
Within the same report, some values are displayed as hours and minutes (for example 1:30:54), while others are shown as decimal hours (for example 1.52 Hours).
This causes unnecessary confusion and requires constant attention when reading reports. It also makes it easy to misread values at a glance, especially since labels such as 1.52 h can easily be interpreted as 1 hour 52 minutes rather than 1.52 decimal hours.
Would it be possible to display all time values consistently in hours and minutes whenever the non-decimal duration display format is selected?
If this is intentional, could you please explain the reasoning behind using decimal hours in some places while the rest of the report uses hours and minutes?
That’s a valid concern, and the inconsistency you’re describing, where some values show in HH:MM:SS format while others appear as decimal hours within the same report, can definitely lead to misreading data. The potential confusion between 1.52 hours and 1 hour 52 minutes is a real usability issue.
Having a consistent duration format throughout all report views when a non-decimal format is selected is not currently possible in Toggl Track. This is a great idea though, and I’ll make sure to pass this feedback along to the product team.
In the meantime, one workaround is to export your report data and reformat the duration values in a spreadsheet tool like Excel or Google Sheets, where you can apply a single consistent time format across all values.
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Thank you for the explanation.
Just to clarify, my suggestion is not to remove decimal hours. I think they’re perfectly useful when the decimal format is selected. My suggestion is simply that when a user explicitly chooses the non-decimal duration format, that preference should be respected consistently throughout the report.
