Countdown timer not working correctly (sleep issue?)

[Rob Brown]

I have noticed that the countdown timer isn't working correctly. My hunch is that it does not stop when the computer is in sleep mode. Too much time is used up.

I have the latest stable version.

[Eduards Bezverhijs (mjasnik)]

Hi, that's interesting. I'll explain how it works.
Time is always counted forwards, it's taken from system clock. If You limit hours by time frame and allowed time per day, time left is counted towards the soonest which will happen.
For instance, when You allow 4 hours a day from 12:00 to 18:00 and spent one hour from 12:00 to 13:00, You have 3 hours left, but if You log in again at 17:00, You have just one hour left, because limit is until 18:00. It does not matter whether computer is at sleep or logged out.
Does this explain Your situation?

[Rob Brown (robbrown99)]

Hi. this makes sense how you describe it and this would be expected behavior to me.

However what I am seeing is that when the user puts the computer in sleep mode, rather than the time limit countdown being frozen, the timer keeps on ticking.

When the user wakes the computer, they find that the timer has still been going behind the scenes and so they have less time left than they thought.

Workaround (which we have been successful at) is to get the user to Log-off, or Power-off (and therefore logs off) rather than putting it in sleep. When the user logs off, the timer is frozen.

Not a big issue now that we have found workaround, but something to consider for a future version.

[Eduards Bezverhijs (mjasnik)]

This is possible with Timekpr-nExT, for this version, nope.