How to calculate time spent for Linux system administration?

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Published on 2010-01-28T13:37:29Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 3:08 UTC
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I would love figuring out how much time I actually have spent in shell performing administrative duties. For billing of course, this information is not sufficient, but it would be helpful to figure out how much time I have actually spent in shell.

My question is:

How anyone got tips on how to calculate time spent in shell (in hours + minutes), let's say per user account?
Could anyone recommend a software that could be used to analyze this time?
Optionally I would like to know about ways how to categorise time spent (e.g. 1 hour for Apache, 2 hours for Samba, etc.)

Also, your takes on how you monitor your admin time, are also much appreciated!

To narrow down the problem, I am specifically interested in ways of tracking time spent in shell for Linux system administration

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