Move time in analysis?

When analyzing your past games, is the time used on each move (and/or the total remaining time on the clock) important ? 

I don't see an explicit area for time on a score sheet; did I miss it?

Do people generally not want this information (time) or is it just too troublesome to write it down?

It would be a waste of time to write down the time. Generally people can remember the moves they spent the longest on. But it also doesn't really matter. What does it teach you to know that you spent an extra 10 seconds on one move over another?

It's useful if you want to evaluate your time management for example. You may not realize exactly which moves you spent a long or short time on until you see your notes after the game. For better or worse, most players aren't interested in evaluating their time management so they don't record their time.

There's no specific area on the scoresheet to record your time.

Some positions require calculation, and sometimes players don't spend long enough.

Some positions are impossible to find your way through by calculating, and players spend too long trying.

In some there is a lot of useful calculating to do, but you can bypass it by making practical decisions instead.

If players mismanage their time frequently, then correcting that can improve a player's results.

Is that something you need to analyze in your own games, though? Or is it something you can study independently? Time management is important and I think tracking time would be poor time management.

You wouldn't analyze it during the game any more than you'd analyze past positions during the game. You record it for afterwards.

Writing the time on the clock takes maybe 1 second.

Then you're wasting 40 seconds in a 40-move game.

I have seen many scoresheets that have a section for clock time, but the numbers are too big and Im lazy, so I do not write them. Most of them dont have it tho.

I think you can make a case for studying your time management, but I never have problems with time management, time controls in Mexico are pretty short (1 hour at best which is crap) and there is nothing you can do not to enter time trouble.

There is an increment for that.

If that's what you want to use the given time for. That increment is for my brain to think.

Increments are usually given for players to write down their moves and to not get flagged in time trouble (you can stop writing if you are below 5 min). You are forced to write down your moves, at least according to FIDE and your opponent can cry about if you dont, already happened to me.

I am sorry for your brain, but he will have to spend some time telling your hand to move, if you are fast enough you may be able to use 20 sec left from the increment to think.

It's not a waste if it improves your results.

Also it's impossible to use all the time to think. You'd wear yourself out. OTB tournament games last for hours.

I get that. But I'm not forced to write down my time so I choose to spend it thinking instead of on more note taking.

Well I'm not playing games that last hours. If I were then yes, I'd write time. But 30 minutes or less and I'd rather save my time. I'm just wondering if it actually does help you to retroactively study your time usage. Is it more beneficial to study your own time expenditure than to just study time management in general? That's all I'm asking.

It may be useful to study positions in which you took more time to try and find out your weaknesses, but I think annotating the time is stupid, everyone remembers where you wasted time and the positions which seemed dificult to analyze.

Some coaches recommend you record the time, and you'll see people doing it during tournament games.

I don't know how much there is to study about time management in general... set a pace, and notice that many high quality moves can be undone by one poor move therefore try to spread your time usage equally. Also in closed positions be sure you're saving time for the critical phases that will come much later when things start to open up. General advice about time management like that might fill a page if a person really tried i.e. not much to talk about.

I don't record my time, but I probably should. I like to analyze... and sometimes I just keep going even though it's not helpful in certain positions. Maybe the act of recording it would help me speed up because I don't want to look stupid to myself afterwards when I'm looking where my time went

I dont have much problems with time management or thinking about irrelevant stuff in chess games, I usually just say "Ok, I have 30 min, by min 28 I must make my move" and go around like that, I find that I have much more problems with my chess knowledge that with my time management .

I tell myself "Ok, I have 2 minutes per move if I want to get to move 40 at ___ time, I can do that, good"

then 5 moves later

"Ok, I only have 1 minute per move if I want to go to move 40, not too bad, don't worry"

then 5 moves later

"ok, about 30 seconds per move, I really  need to speed up"

Then I get down to about 2 minutes on my clock and blitz to the time control