ReportAway!®

Timers are independent entities which, while in a running state, accumulate the duration spent on an activity/task.

Timers are not time entries, but rather contain a time entry. The time entry contained within a timer only becomes reportable when the timer is stopped. Stopping a timer essentially deletes it, and publishes it's time entry to the Time Record list.

Timers can be started and paused an arbitrary number of times, but can only be stopped once.  For standard ReportAway! where duration is always considered to be a contiguous amount of time between the start and end time, pausing a timer will cause the end time to be distorted. For example if you start a timer at 9AM, pause it for an hour at 10AM, and then stop it at 12PM, the end time will be recorded as 11AM reflecting a total run time of 3 hours. If end time _must_ be accurate for your reporting purposes, do not pause timers.