Overtime Compensation for Traveltime

A Navy employee appealed the disallowance of his claim for payment of overtime compensation for time spent in travel between his residence and temporary duty station aboard a naval ship. The employee traveled about 61 minutes each way by private automobile, based on estimates of traveltime supplied by local officials. However, estimates of approximate traveltime do not necessarily reflect the actual time required by the claimant to perform the travel. One minute in excess of 1 hour, each way, was de minimis and of insufficient quantity to be transformed into compensable overtime.