In Jira Software -question on Original Estimate

Question

In Jira Software we use the Original Estimate field so that the hours are brought onto the OOTB reporting.

However, in the reports 40 hours is shown as 1 week rather than as 40 hours and 240 hours is listed as 6 weeks for example

Thoughts on how to maintain the "hours" format in the OOTB reports?

Steve Way · Answer

Its not about human consumption - its about a quick read to see how many hours are planned to be burned in a release.   its much easier to add up as hours rather than the "human friendly" poor excuse of formatting as is found today./

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Jira defaults to a "pretty" format for lengths of time which

Takes into account a standard working set of hours (e.g. a 40 hour week, when a week is really 168 hours).  That's configurable in the time-tracking settings

Try to make it easier for humans to understand.  I know what you're looking for is 45 hours or 62 hours, or 9 hours, etc, but that is not really that useful in a report.  It neglects the human side, where most of us really don't do 8/5/48-and-one-extra.  Even when we do, it's not the way we thing.

I did not have to look up 168 because I've seen this so many times.  Ask your friends and colleagues how many hours there are in a week and you won't find many that know.  The grouping of hours into larger groups makes far more sense to humans.

However, you can get it turned off.  At this time, I think you need to raise a support request and accept that all of your time views will become fixed at "hours for everything" across the system.