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Please stop rounding running times.

posted over 2 years ago | Report

Went back today to do some comparison and found that the actual time I entered is no where to be found but a rounded up version is.

This means you have to enter the real time in the text box to maintain all the details. If I ran a 14:55 mile for 2miles I'd rather not see 15mins anywhere. The reason I use this site is to accurately keep track when I return to see if I'm improving for a certain course. Rounding times defeats the whole purpose of keeping a log.

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  • Jeff N.
    Jeff N. Sendmail

    I second this enhancement. I would prefer if the times were not rounded. It's not such a big deal on training runs, but for races, I'd like the times to be precise.

    posted over 2 years ago

  • Rogier
    Rogier Sendmail

    Thirded. Please stop rounding workout times please!

    posted over 2 years ago

  • Michael R.PRO
    Michael R. Sendmail

    Fourth-ed! Rounding causes more confusion than the help it purports to supply. Please provide the accuracy as was input, else why bother asking for the seconds field to begin with.

    posted over 2 years ago

  • Daniel J.
    Daniel J. Sendmail

    Amen. This is really annoying. 30 seconds makes a difference! I hate seeing them do the same thing with distances, too. 3.1 miles is not 3 miles. :)

    posted almost 2 years ago

  • Erica M.
    Erica M. Sendmail

    +1 on not rounding time and distances.

    posted almost 2 years ago

  • Laura A.
    Laura A. Sendmail

    +1

    posted almost 2 years ago

  • Jordan A.
    Jordan A. Sendmail

    +1 please don't round times or distances!! Or at least let us control it.

    posted almost 2 years ago

  • Karina H.
    Karina H. Sendmail

    Yes! And if my input is 7,5 kilometers - I don´t want this to be 8. It´s a big difference!

    posted almost 2 years ago

  • Shaun D.
    Shaun D. Sendmail

    I'm glad I'm not alone in my desire to have seconds displayed. This site seems useless without the seconds.

    posted almost 2 years ago

  • Patrick D.
    Patrick D. Sendmail

    +1

    posted almost 2 years ago

  • Roland B.
    Roland B. Sendmail

    This.

    posted almost 2 years ago

  • Gil
    Gil Sendmail

    +1
    I did not see this until now. However, as I had posted previously - "sometimes" it gives me seconds. Seems like a bug, which may explain why it's taking so long for responses...

    posted almost 2 years ago

  • Mike S.
    Mike S. Sendmail

    I've been tracking my miles this month and noticed that this rounding has me down for 98 miles while in reality I'm at 110 miles.

    It doesn't make sense....the programming change to fix this is very simple....may have to look for another site to log my miles.

    posted over 1 year ago

  • Reid
    Reid Sendmail

    I really like the site and the service you provide. But, the rounding of times are pretty bothersome for me. I hate to see my 18:37 5k show up as 19 minutes. As a detail oriented runner, it's a little frustrating because a time of 18:31 would look the same as a 19:29.

    posted over 1 year ago

  • David C.
    David C. Sendmail

    This bothers me too, and is why I haven't bothered to use the new Garmin support. Garmin Connect keeps the exact times for everything, so I keep all my data there.

    posted over 1 year ago

  • Rob L.
    Rob L. Sendmail

    +1
    it doesn't quite bother me as much as i also use training center but it is annoying to have your time and distance rounded

    posted over 1 year ago

  • Corey I.
    Corey I. Sendmail

    +1 -- I completely agree! We work hard for those times and every second (and millisecond) counts! Has anyone emailed DailyMile directly about this feature change/enhancement? If not, I sure will. :)

    posted over 1 year ago | edited over 1 year ago

  • Betsy B.
    Betsy B. Sendmail

    Agree! I'd rather see the exact times for my runs rather than a rounded time! I hate having to go into edit mode to check my exact time for a particular run.

    posted over 1 year ago

  • Frank M.
    Frank M. Sendmail

    +1... it also seems like the pace is calculated on base of the rounded time :-/

    posted over 1 year ago

  • Jeff H.
    Jeff H. Sendmail

    Agree with everyone above.

    posted over 1 year ago

  • Steve R.
    Steve R. Sendmail

    Yes! Rounding cheapens the log function.

    posted over 1 year ago

  • Josh G.
    Josh G. Sendmail

    Agree, please remove rounding. I know you store the numbers becasue when I edit an entry the origional mileage and time is there.

    posted over 1 year ago

  • Jeff H.
    Jeff H. Sendmail

    I would actually like to see Dailymile get more serious about data overall. It's nice currently and makes pretty graphs, but I would like the ability to create my own reports and graphs and display them on a customizable dashboard. I would also like to be able to check out other people's data more easily (with user controlled privacy settings of course).

    posted over 1 year ago

  • Kelly K.PRO
    Kelly K. Sendmail

    Maybe there is a way that we can show seconds if you run a 5k or less. Will look into this.

    posted over 1 year ago

  • Josh G.
    Josh G. Sendmail

    I'm not sure that a mixed (sometimes rounded and sometimes not rounded) helps very much. It might actually make the data worse. I think what we'd all like to see here is a way to export or view our data with the actual distance and actual time, so that we can slice and dice it how we like. If I may suggest a simple solution that would provide the most satisfaction---The "List" view could displaythe unrounded numbers. I I think that would go a long way for most of us.

    posted over 1 year ago

  • Alastair M.
    Alastair M. Sendmail

    Edit: woop. It looks like you're not rounding now.

    posted about 1 year ago | edited about 1 year ago

  • Daniel R.
    Daniel R. Sendmail

    Rounding up is cheating. If the software can't do the math??? at least round it down.

    posted about 1 year ago | edited about 1 year ago

  • Harris A.
    Harris A. Sendmail

    I have to revive this topic, i hate getting to the end of a week on here to find out that im actually not any where near the posted mileage because it rounds up or down every half mile. :/
    grrr is what i have to say to that

    posted 10 months ago

  • Alastair M.
    Alastair M. Sendmail

    I thought it had been fixed but apparently not. Why is 26 minutes 45 being rounded up to 27 minutes?

    This is insane. Please, please, please fix this! Come on, Daily Mile! You must be runners, so why would you possibly do this? 26 minutes 45 seconds is NOT 27 minutes!

    posted 9 months ago

  • Seth W.
    Seth W. Sendmail

    New member here for 2 days and I already dont like the rounding and would like to see this fixed.

    posted 6 months ago

  • Paul T.
    Paul T. Sendmail

    Are we asking for the moon here? Seems like it would be such a simple fix.

    posted 4 months ago

  • Jeff H.
    Jeff H. Sendmail

    As a matter of fact, we are. Dailymile doesn't communicate well with it's users, especially with feature requests. Even a simple, "that's not on our road map right now, but I appreciate the suggestion" would be better than silence.

    posted 4 months ago | edited 4 months ago

  • Josh G.
    Josh G. Sendmail

    Just an FYI to everyone ... This post is so old the OP isn't even on a DM user anymore...

    That said, here are a couple of things that work for me, maybe they will for you as well.

    1. If you go to TRAINING, and then Select SETTINGS, there is an export button that will allow you to export your training data in CSV format. This includes the exact distances and exact times, etc. (you have to do some math to convert to miles, hh:mm:ss, etc,but search the forums if you can't figure it out.) -- it's fairly easy to pivot the data and create nice charts in your favorite spreadsheet application.

    2. If you click EDIT on an individual workout you are able to view the exact details.

    I've embraced the rounding. It often helps me add at least a .5 to the end of each run :)

    Hope that is of some help...

    posted 4 months ago | edited 4 months ago

  • Daniel R.
    Daniel R. Sendmail

    Thanks, It's certainly not the end of the world that it's rounded off but why round it off in the first place? We are working with computers here, it can use decimal points, it can add up exact amounts! The OP might not be here but everybody that commented is still here waiting.

    posted 4 months ago

  • Kelly K.PRO
    Kelly K. Sendmail

    We try to respond to as many people as possible. We're only two developers working on the site, and it's no possible to respond to everything. This feature is currently not on our roadmap, but we have a lot of great stuff in the pipeline.

    posted 4 months ago

  • Kelly K.PRO
    Kelly K. Sendmail
    in reply to what Jeff H. said:As a matter of fact, we are. Dailymile doesn't communicate well with it's users, especially with feature requests. Even a simple, "that's not on our road map right now, but I appreciate the suggestion" would be better than silence.

    We try to respond to as many people as possible. We're only two developers working on the site, and it's no possible to respond to everything. This feature is currently not on our roadmap, but we have a lot of great stuff in the pipeline.

    posted 4 months ago

  • Alastair M.
    Alastair M. Sendmail
    in reply to what Kelly K. said:We try to respond to as many people as possible. We're only two developers working on the site, and it's no possible to respond to everything. This feature is currently not on our roadmap, but we have a lot of great stuff in the pipeline.

    Hi Kelly,

    Firstly, please don't think we don't appreciate the hard work you guys have been putting into the site. It really is and you're both doing fantastic work on it. I love it and am going to get myself a pro account to show my appreciation. But surely, as runners yourselves, you must realise that a 55:46 time isn't a 56:00 time for a race? I don't understand why you consider this a feature when you have the accurate data already, you're just formatting it rounded up.

    posted 4 months ago

  • Kelly K.PRO
    Kelly K. Sendmail
    in reply to what Alastair M. said:Hi Kelly, Firstly, please don't think we don't appreciate the hard work you guys have been putting into the site. It really is and you're both doing fantastic work on it. I love it and am going to get myself a pro account to show my appreciation.... read more

    Appreciate the kind words. We do our best :)

    We do have all the data, and there will always be places on the site where you can see your exact stats. We hope to make this easier in the next version of dailymile.

    posted 4 months ago

  • Paul T.
    Paul T. Sendmail
    in reply to what Kelly K. said:Appreciate the kind words. We do our best :) We do have all the data, and there will always be places on the site where you can see your exact stats. We hope to make this easier in the next version of dailymile.

    Hi Kelly,

    Thanks for all your work and your words here. Where can we find our exact times?

    posted 4 months ago

  • Carole S.
    Carole S. Sendmail

    One would think it would be EASIER to post our data accurately as opposed to rounding it up. this has been complained about for years and they never fix it. This is why I use running-log.com to keep ACCURATE running records. Dailymile is nice for the comeraderie but for real stats use something else.

    posted about 1 month ago

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