Re: Change working time without changing duration?

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You actually HAVE kept the same duration. Durations are always tracked in minutes with Project converting to hours, days, etc for display, strictly for user convenience. (The conversion factor is the "hours per day" setting on the calendar options page - that's all that setting does.) When you entered the tasks with 1 day's duration with "hours per day" set to 8, Project converted that to 480 minutes and stored it. Now you've changed the definition of a standard "day" to be 9 hours, not 8. Your 480 minute duration task was not affected, it's still in the database as a 480 minute task same as before but now that your standard "day" is 540 minutes. So your task's duration is now displayed as ".89 day" even though the duration hasn't changed at all. The only thing that HAS changed is the number of minutes you're now telling Project to call a "day." So before doing anything, you need to find out if the duration of '1 day' Task X was SUPPOSED to be 540 minutes and it was initially entered with the wrong duration or if it really is a 480 minute task.
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"Mike R." <MikeR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:72DF203B-2514-4565-83A9-02C528B55009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a 6000+ line Project schedule and now they tell me that they work 9
hours a day, not 8. Since they want to resource load this thing and do EVMS,
I need to put the right number of hours in the schedule. If I use Options and
change the hours per day to 9 and hours per week to 45, Project changes all
the durations to a wierd number (1 day becomes "0.89 day").

Any way to change the hours per day and keep the original Durations?

Thanks,
Mike R.

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