On 23/7/00 2:05 PM, martin reed wrote:
> I have a question relating to "the time" on a Mac:
>
> Recently, I found, using MetaCard 2.3.1, if you launch MetaCard and type
> "answer the time", it displays the time properly. However, if, while
> MetaCard is running, you put the computer to sleep for a while, and then
> wake it up, it gives you the time as if no time passed when the computer
> was asleep...
I think this is a bug. I managed to reproduce this on my Mac as well.
> So..Is this a problem where MetaCard queries the system clock on startup,
> but uses it's own clock once running? It's a very odd thing to notice,
> when I had my computer asleep for about 8 hours and then used "the
> time" in a script, and it said something which was obviously from 8 hours
> ago or so.
>
> Any clues? Am I missing something? Do I need to manually tell MetaCard to
> reset the clock to the system clock? The clock tells great time, it just
> doens't notice that the computer was asleep for hours :)
>
> Thanks,
> ReeD.
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