According to that asylum known as EASA, since an aeroplane 'flight' is from chocks-to-chocks, if that flight is an IFR flight, then IFR flight time may be logged from chocks-to-chocks even if it was flown in gin clear VMC throughout.
Before the EASA lunatics took over, it was simple. 'Actual' IF time meant time spent in IMC and 'Simulated' IF time meant any time under a visor/hood but not in IMC.
Last time I was in an airliner from London Airport to Köln/Bonn, we probably spent 5 min in cloud, if that. The autopilot would have been flying the A319 for 99% of the trip. Time spent controlling the aircraft by sole reference to instruments? 5 min at the most, but zero in reality. But about 90 min of 'IFR flight time' as far as EASA is concerned, as we were waiting quite a while for departure....