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On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:08:38 -0400, Loris Bennett  
<loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> On Friday, 29 Apr 2016 at 09:25, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>>> However, this does not help with my main issue: tracking /time in
>>> office/.  Not /time in office working/, mind you.
>>>
>>> I'd like to have a report like this (I mean information, not
>>> formatting):
>>>
>>> * Office time: 2:00
>>> ** Task 1/Project A: 0:30
>>> ** Task 2/Project B: 0:45
>>>
>>> * Home time:
>>> ** Task 1/Project A: 1:15
>>> ** Task 2/Project B: 0:30
>>>
>>> So not only time spent on actual work on various tasks/projects, but
>>> also time /spent physically in the office/.
>>
>> I would suggest that the office time simply be the sum of the times of
>> all headlines within that sub-tree?  If you need something to mop up
>> times which are not allocated to a specific task within the office
>> hierarchy, create a sub-headline called "misc" or some such?
>>
>> Or am I missing something more fundamental?
>
> For me the problem would be just checking in and out of "misc".  If I
> forget once, then my /time in the office/ would be incorrect.
>
> Personally, I need to keep track of /time in the office/ for my
> employer.  Tracking time actually spent doing tasks planned with Org
> would be nice for me personally, but as I can't currently have two
> clocks running, I don't do this.

Have not tested this, but what about running two separate sessions of  
emacs? It would certainly work if using two separate machines or two  
separate logins on one machine. Should be able to ssh or ctrl-alt-F1 to a  
different identity. Merge the two reports into one later with easy custom  
code.