Re: [Planner Dev] Funky Dates, discrepency and weirdness...

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

On tis, 2004-06-22 at 09:14 +0800, Alexey Zilber wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>   I've been using Planner for over a week now, version .11, and I've 
> been grabbing the CVS daily and testing that out every day.  I've 
> noticed some weird behavior, both in .11 and in the CVS version that's 
> got a colleague of mine frustrated (she's used to M$ Project).  The 
> first issue, is with .11 that stretches over to the current CVS 
> version.  I have a screenshot of this for whoever is intersted, or I can 
> send the file.  Basically you have a start date of May 12, work is 15d 
> and the Finish is...May 12.  It SHOULD be May 24, taking into account 
> the calender weekends.  The same happens when the file is loaded in the 
> cvs planner, BUT the Cost in the cvs one is half of the cost in version 
> .11.  That's issue #1.
>   Issue #2, loading the same file in both .11 and the cvs version (but 
> another project, not the same as above) yields a major discrepency in 
> dates. Example #1, version .11:
> 
>  Task header (UI Development): Start May 27, Finish Sep 23, Work 165d 
> 5h, Slack 638d 2h, Cost 36,439.03
> Sub Task (CSS Dev): Start May 27, Finish Jul 23, Work 20d, Slack 318d, 
> Cost 2,000
> 
> In the CVS Version the same file comes out as:
> 
> Task header (UI Development): Start May 27, Finish Sep 23, Work 91d, 
> Slack 351d, Cost 20,041.46
> Sub Task (CSS Dev): Start May 27, Finish Jul 23, Work 20d, Slack 159d, 
> Cost 4,000
> 
> Why such a discrepency?  And what's also weird is, the Gantt chart for 
> both ends at the same time.
> 
> Any ideas?

Was there ever any ideas about what is happening here? My theory is that
the old version simply was wrong and that hopefully the new one is
correct, or less wrong. 

/Richard

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