Once you figure out the intricacies of your software you should be up and running.
Keep in mind at times it is convenient to know date differences if using activity or a reference calendar, in such case user defined fields and formulas [Global Change] can be of help, the details will depend on your software.
Say an activity is projected to finish late by a 2 days plus 2 hours but if it happened just after a weekend, in terms of activity calendar it is late by 2 hours. This information is good to know and compare side by side.
Good luck.
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Submitted by Zoltan Palffy on Thu, 2017-05-11 13:39
You need to change the dates to include time, and changethe durations to hours before you can check the arithmetic. P6 does all of its calculations and store all of its quantities in hours.
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21 years 8 monthsOnce you figure out the
Once you figure out the intricacies of your software you should be up and running.
Keep in mind at times it is convenient to know date differences if using activity or a reference calendar, in such case user defined fields and formulas [Global Change] can be of help, the details will depend on your software.
Say an activity is projected to finish late by a 2 days plus 2 hours but if it happened just after a weekend, in terms of activity calendar it is late by 2 hours. This information is good to know and compare side by side.
Good luck.
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16 years 3 monthsdavid is correct make sure
david is correct make sure that your TIMES are correct and that your decimal places are set to 2 places
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21 yearsYou need to change the dates
You need to change the dates to include time, and changethe durations to hours before you can check the arithmetic. P6 does all of its calculations and store all of its quantities in hours.