Re: historystats file format documentation

2010/4/25 Joe Wells <[email protected]>

> Zdeněk Kedaj <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > 2010/4/15 Joe Wells <[email protected]>
> >
> >     Zdeněk Kedaj <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> >     > The date format is a bit confusing, why it starts with "1" and why
> is not full
> >     > year representation present? I guess 104 in the exaple corresponds
> to year 2004
> >     > - or is there any other magic interpretation of 104? :)
> >
> >     I think the contents of this line is just a raw dump of the data that
> >     is returned by the “localtime” or “gmtime” library function calls on
> POSIX
> >     systems.  The documentation of those functions says this:
> >
> >      tm_year
> >        The number of years since 1900.
> >
> >     > I also guess the two
> >     > dates on the line mean "start of recording" and "end of recording"
> within one
> >     > day, unless the work period overlaps to the next day.
> >
> >     I think you are (mostly) correct.  The first date seems to be the
> time
> >     of the earliest activity noticed on a given day, and the second one
> >     seems to be the time of the last activity on that same day.
> >
> >     > It would be more valuable
> >     > to segment the work records in hours in the next version of
> workrave
> >     > stats.
> >
> >     It is true that you need to do some processing to get a breakdown by
> >     hours.  Fortunately, the information you want is already there.
> >
> > The basic information is there, but you loose the knowledge of how is the
> work
> > distributed during the day. If you work 5 hours in the morning and then
> just
> > click shut down in the evening you get misleading work period. From this
> > historystat format you cannot make any conclusions about workloads during
> the
> > day (which could be interesting), that is what I tried to point out.
>
> Sorry for being confusing.  The information you want is in the
> “idlelog..log” file.  If you look for earlier postings on this mailing
> list, you can find programs that process this data.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> --
> Joe
>

Hm, but this file is in binary format which is quite hard to parse. Does it
contain any more data than the historystats file?
Zdenek


>
> >     > Well but thanks for feedback anyway, I will have the java stuff
> done untill the
> >     > end of april :)
> >     >
> >     > 2010/4/8 Joe Wells <[email protected]>
> >     >
> >     >     Zdeněk Kedaj <[email protected]> writes:
> >     >
> >     >     > Hello everyone,
> >     >     > is there any documentation on the historystats file? I want
> to know the meaning
> >     >     > of the rows and numbers in this file as I am going to write
> Java app for
> >     >     > extract the data to some format that can be easily
> read/imported to some
> >     >     > statistics software. Although I can guess the format I would
> like some more
> >     >     > feedback from people who really know the meaning of those
> numbers.
> >     >
> >     >     Here is a relevant comment from contrib/plot/workrave-dump in
> the
> >     >     Workrave 1.8.5 distribution:
> >     >
> >     >     # WorkRaveStats 4
> >     >     # D 16 5 104 14 51 17 5 104 3 59
> >     >     # B 0 7 9 8 40 0 0 9 386
> >     >     # B 1 7 4 1 0 1 3 4 362
> >     >     # B 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> >     >     # m 6 6049 234742 113560 266 417 16617
> >     >     # D 17 5 104 16 49 18 5 104 3 59
> >     >     # B 0 7 1 0 3 0 0 1 526
> >     >     # B 1 7 3 0 0 0 2 2 1768
> >     >     # B 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 872
> >     >     # m 6 15272 39275 11937 36 30 1899
> >     >     #
> >     >     # D(ate):       [ tm_mday tm_mon tm_year tm_hour tm_min ] {2}
> >     >     #
> >     >     # B(reak):      <t> <nn> <x0> <x1> <x2> <x3> <x4> <x5> <x6>
> >     >     #
> >     >     #       <t> = break type
> >     >     #               0 = microbreak
> >     >     #               1 = rest break
> >     >     #               2 = daily limit
> >     >     #
> >     >     #       <nn> STATS_BREAKVALUE_SIZEOF - number of following
> numbers
> >     >     #
> >     >     #       <x0> STATS_BREAKVALUE_PROMPTED - break prompts<x6> +
> repeated prompts
> >     >     #       <x1> STATS_BREAKVALUE_TAKEN - prompted breaks taken
> >     >     #       <x2> STATS_BREAKVALUE_NATURAL_TAKEN - natural breaks
> taken
> >     >     #       <x3> STATS_BREAKVALUE_SKIPPED - breaks skipped
> >     >     #       <x4> STATS_BREAKVALUE_POSTPONED - breaks postponed
> >     >     #       <x5> STATS_BREAKVALUE_UNIQUE_BREAKS - break prompts
> >     >     #       <x6> STATS_BREAKVALUE_TOTAL_OVERDUE - overdue time
> (seconds)
> >     >     #
> >     >     # m(isc):       <nn> <x0> <x1> <x2> <x3> <x4> <x5>
> >     >     #
> >     >     #       <nn> STATS_VALUE_SIZEOF
> >     >     #       <x0> STATS_VALUE_TOTAL_ACTIVE_TIME (seconds)
> >     >     #       <x1> STATS_VALUE_TOTAL_MOUSE_MOVEMENT
> >     >     #       <x2> STATS_VALUE_TOTAL_CLICK_MOVEMENT
> >     >     #       <x3> STATS_VALUE_TOTAL_MOVEMENT_TIME (seconds)
> >     >     #       <x4> STATS_VALUE_TOTAL_CLICKS
> >     >     #       <x5> STATS_VALUE_TOTAL_KEYSTROKES
> >     >
> >     >     I hope this helps.
> >     >
> >     >     --
> >     >     With my best regards,
> >     >
> >     >     Joe Wells
>
>

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