<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I have no problem telling the "quarter hour" - but I just round, not strictly up. So 7 minutes and 29 seconds is fee, but 7 minutes and 30 seconds costs the quarter hour. It averages out in the long run.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I'd be interested is seeing that script, if you don't mind sharing. I am horrible about invoicing for those few clients who want one.<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></FONT>In response to a discussion we had here last year, I now bill by the<BR>quarter hour, meaning I time all work on my Hamster timer and then I<BR>have a script that (at the end of the month) tallies the total time<BR>for each day and then rounds that up to the nearest quarter hour and<BR>then adds all the days of the month together.</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></div></div></body></html>