# Can not get my data not to show up as HH:mm

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/can-not-get-my-data-not-to-show-up-as-hh-mm/6567>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [April 10, 2020, 8:04am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/can-not-get-my-data-not-to-show-up-as-hh-mm/6567 "2020-04-10T08:04:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Benjamin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Benjamin](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/Benjamin)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 8:04am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/can-not-get-my-data-not-to-show-up-as-hh-mm/6567/1 "2020-04-10T08:04:25Z")

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I created this goal and my original unit was “hour”, I just want beeminder to keep the unit has hour and count it as units instead of automatically changing it to time format hh:mm. It is full of bugs, for example, if I put in a value of 1.3, beeminder will changing it to 01:18, then if I update the description or something next day, the value will get changed to 01:17 or 01:16788888 or some random time. I just want the automatic time format to stop!

So I change my unit name from “hour” to “x\_hour” in hope that beeminder will stop changing my data from unit to time format hh:mm. But beeminder will just not stop changing my data into hh:mm. and it is very annoying.

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**Author:** ![shanaqui](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/shanaqui/32/3513_2.png) [@shanaqui](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/shanaqui)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/can-not-get-my-data-not-to-show-up-as-hh-mm/6567/2 "2020-04-10T08:55:24Z")

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Have you tried unchecking the hh:mm option in settings? 🙂

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/2X/4/4da70f9956ce306ec8dd29be2d7b6e5357a36bfd.png)

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**Author:** ![Benjamin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Benjamin](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/Benjamin)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/can-not-get-my-data-not-to-show-up-as-hh-mm/6567/3 "2020-04-10T09:19:13Z")

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I’m a clown…

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**Author:** ![shanaqui](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/shanaqui/32/3513_2.png) [@shanaqui](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/shanaqui)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/can-not-get-my-data-not-to-show-up-as-hh-mm/6567/4 "2020-04-10T09:52:47Z")

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Ah, there’s a lot of settings to comb through. 🙂 It’s great to hear about this kind of confusion; it helps tell us what we need to make more obvious. And if you’d found a bug with it that would be even more valuable! Is it behaving itself now?