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vk6flab / contest-logger

Cross platform amateur radio contest logging tool.
https://vk6flab.github.io/contest-logger/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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You cannot manually enter a timestamp #19

Open vk6flab opened 1 year ago

vk6flab commented 1 year ago

The current implementation updates the date and time in real-time, this prevents the user from entering their own time.

NoseyNick commented 1 year ago

Trying to remember which logging program I liked, might have been FLDigi/FLLog's one, but in any case...

The behaviour I liked was to have a "QSO start" UTC clock ticking away until I START typing calls/RSTs/etc in other relevant fields, and then a "QSO end" clock ticking away until I click Submit/Log/Done/whatever.

Interesting thought though... For the purposes of contest logging, I think they usually want ONE timestamp. Is that the moment of the "599 QSL?" or the moment you first PTT or the moment of the "RR TNX QRZ" or something else? When you get one of those "U R A dupe, already in log", but you can't find it, what timestamp are you supposed to record then? :thinking:

vk6flab commented 1 year ago

Interesting idea for timing. We could do that as a preference for example.

Which time to log is also a preference, but when I log a contest it's the time I hit the "enter" or "log" button.

I'm also attempting to make sure that we don't end up with 700 preferences, I'm a firm believer in the Human Interface Guidelines published by Apple in 1980-mumble. One of the concepts is that you should never ask the end user for something that you can computationally determine.