Warning: Windows-only, as it 100% relies on the Windows event log.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Ever needed to track the time you used (i.e., worked on) your PC?
Do you have to feed some corporate time tracking system with your work time info on a weekly basis, yet you don't like (or forget about) clicking the time tracker on each task change and when you already do, you for all the world cannot remember when you were at your PC?
Or you are home-officing with your kids at home, having your work time fragmented as hell, so it's just plain impossible to track your work time thoroughly and in detail?
Do you spend 12 hours "working", yet you just cannot seem to finish your work and you don't know where the time got lost?
Well, look no further...
Mine your Windows event log for PC startup/shutdown/wakeup/sleep/unlock/lock events and transform them into a human readable information on the times when your PC has been used. It does not track your tasks for you, but it at least gives you clues on whether your seemingly 12-hour work day indeed took 12 hours or was it more like 3 hours of PC work and 9 hours of recurrently attending to your children (or pets) in desperate need of your attention.
Just run dotnet wtwd.dll --help (provided you have the .NET 6 run-time installed)
or wtwd.exe --help (if you downloaded the Windows full build) and see the results.
This is a pure console utility, not a complex time tracking system. Don't worry – it is not going to silently report your PC time to your managing superior.
Tested (as of July 13, 2022) on Windows 10 only.
Note: Lock+Unlock events do not exist on all Windows 10 systems. This can be
worked-around via the init-lock-unlock verb. Beware, there's some elevated privileges
switching on and off in front of you!