Bug 170225 - Feature Request: Track real usage time on documents, not just the time the app is open.
Summary: Feature Request: Track real usage time on documents, not just the time the ap...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2026-01-04 18:14 UTC by Axel
Modified: 2026-01-29 10:23 UTC (History)
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Description Axel 2026-01-04 18:14:55 UTC
Description:
When I write a complex document, it is very handy to see how long I've edited the document in total, especially when the editing sessions span multiple days. When I forget to close the document, for example over night, when not shutting down the notebook but only closing the lid to put it to sleep too, the counter always continues to count even without editing anything for hours and adds this non-usage time as editing time on next save. It's not unusual to work like that.
I would like to change this time tracking behaviour to something like a new option in settings for a user-defined value, that results (when not empty) in ignoring the timespan longer than that value between editing changes being counted? Example: I set this value to 1h, that results in not adding up the counter between last saving the document before going to sleep and continuing editing the (still opened) document the next day if longer than the value being defined.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create new document, save it, but don't close it.
2. Do something else without touching the document and come back later (in my case very much later, like over night).
3. When returning enter anything in the still opened document and save again.
4. Look at the total editing time in the document properties.
5. Continue as long as you want.

Actual Results:
The timespan of the document being open (for example 72h, or 3 days, even when the computer was put to sleep for hours in between making changes for seconds).

Expected Results:
Nothing else than always, since the proposed functionality does not exist yet.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Showing a more realistic timespan that echoes "real" editing time, not just the time in the example described, maybe e few Minutes instead of 3 days.

Version: 25.8.4.2 (AARCH64)
Build ID: 290daaa01b999472f0c7a3890eb6a550fd74c6df
CPU threads: 8; OS: macOS 26.2; UI render: default; VCL: osx
Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: de-DE
Calc: threaded