tracking total time spent on project

It does have a 'Usage Logger' (under the Help menu). Not used it myself, so can't say if it will be of any use to you.

Glad this came up. I just noticed some of the pan laws aren't set to what I'd like in some of the projects. Not sure how else I would have noticed.... Cool!          

That's strange. They define editing time as "The total time you’ve had the project open, from the time it was created to the last time it was saved. This does not include time spent editing the project since you last saved it. If you want to update this value, save the project."
     

I just did a test over here with a project that had about 8 hours of editing time.

I did a save and the editing time was updated as I expected.

I did as 'save as' and the editing time and revisions were reset to scratch. Could it be that X1 thinks saving with a new file name makes it a new project in terms of editing time? If that's the case, I'm going to do a bug submit.     

Edit: Tried another test. Took an existing project and went into Windows Explorer and just renamed the project file manually outside of X1. When I opened the renamed project, all audio data AND file stats were intact.

Looks like it's one of those situations where it's better to rename projects outside of X1???

Ooooh I don't think I want to know how much time I actually spend on a project.  I already know it works out to pennies per hour - I don't want to find out that it should really be fractions of a penny per hour. 

RB

I would use a separate app to track that stuff. Sometimes I bounce outta SONAR or leave it open while I'm lunching. There's gobs of tiny freeware time loggers out there.

Could it be that X1 thinks saving with a new file name makes it a new project in terms of editing time? If that's the case, I'm going to do a bug submit.

That is pretty much the behavior one would expect. Save as new name = new file therefore new statistics. That is the way the creation date is maintained by the OS, and the way editing time is handled by every other program I have used that keeps track of that parameter. To preserve the statistics, one would expect that you could save as old name, then save as new name, then reopen old name and continue working on old name. One would also expect that if one saves a new version as opposed to a new file, the statistics would not reset. Since I do not bill anyone for my time, I have never taken any notice of this property.