just want to track time left

This may be a Jira issue - not sure. We are only interesting in tracking how much time is left on a task and don't really care about how much time we have spent on it already. However, when we log work, we are required to enter how much time we have spent. Is there anyway to just set the estimated time remaining without entering the time spent?

No M,

JIRA forces you to enter a timespent.
We, since we don't track that value, always enter 1.

There is some Requests on the Atlassian's JIRA to withdraw that constraints.

Cheers,

thanks - I will go vote on that issue with Jira