I would love a counter, that starts when you press "start progress" and then stops the count when pressing "Stop Progress". It will sum up the spent time concurrent with the work being done. - Ergo: If I go into a task five minutes in, I will see five minutes spent. If I go in ten minutes after that I will see fifteen minutes spent. When the "Stop progress" is pressed, the sum up will stop.
Then you only need to enter the "extra" time spent on an issue. - And the actual spent time when working on the issue, will automatically be filled out.
It would save us coders a LOT of clicks and entering when working on small bugs and issues.

Just to be crystal clear:
This is regarding starting / stopping the progress on an issue when a coder / supporter is working on an issue. Today he/she has to manually enter the time spent wheter the start/stop progress is pressed or not. - we would like a sum of the spent time to start when pressing start progress. - This way the reporter can follow the time spent and the assignee does not have to manually fill out this field afterwards since that part is done by JIRA automatically.

We could REALLY use this feature.

Thanks a bunch in advance. - And thanks for a fantastic tool. JIRA has already made our lives a bit easier.
Have a great weekend and I hope to see this request implemented in the future.
If you have any questions do not hesitate to send me a mail.

/Jens Bay