How to effectively measure developer's work hours?

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I have a few software developers working for my projects and I would like to provide them a way to register time they spent on real development.

There is good will to register development hours, no force, but we try to avoid techniques like excel sheets register because this is so uncomfortable.

I can track svn commits, but this is unreliable. Developers also helps supporting different projects during the day, so assuming they work on one project by whole day is not true.

I've seen utilities that popups a message every hour to confirm the project you're working on but this is annoying.

Some kind of active-window-title-anaylzer might help (you can get solution name from there in the case of Visual Studio) but I have no experience with such idea.

If you have any experience with programmers/designers work hours registration, please share with me. Thanks

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