BelArgUSA,
Oh! for such a system as FAA for logging hours.
Unfortunately, many of us come from regulatory systems where logging every hour and minute is required by law. Any error or omission is a "strict liability criminal offense", a situation beloved of inspectors ---- (who doesn't make the occasional adding mistake??) ---- and no "dacimaal" hours allowed.
Indeed, said inspectors will spend hours listening to automatic aerodrome recorders ( used for sending the bills for landing fees) and their time stamps, and comparing them with the "official" daylight and darkness graphs, to detect the heinous criminal offense of "estimating" day and night hours ---- after all, a precise knowledge of "the end of civil twilight" or its morning equivalent, for the "relevant" day and date --- at the precise immediate latitude and longitude of the aircraft----should be at the forefront of any pilot's mind ----- shouldn't it???
All in the interests of air safety, as I am sure you will understand.After all, "they" wouldn't spend all this time on clerical errors, if it wasn't a leading cause of death and destruction.
Mind you, any civil authority that could publish a major article on accident causes, and come to the conclusion that "Pre-Flight Planning" was the leading cause of fatal accidents, is capable of anything.
Tootle pip!!