[P1] Does the Clock Sleep?

[Michael Adams]

Well I do stuff all the time before the menubar clock updates, not that 
it takes that long. Never had a crash from doing that, and yes, I am 
running 10.2.6, so no problems there. The only thing I can't do before 
the clock updates is get the modem to start dialing. I've clicked the 
icon, then connect, up to 3 times before the clock updates and until 
this happens it doesn't start dialing. Weird!

And as I understand, when you computer is asleep, it really is asleep. 
Since the CPU is not doing anything (effectively turned off) it can't 
run any tasks, so sadly no Cron tasks can be run while asleep. Just 
think if they could though: the hard drive would have to wake up and I 
doubt that would be a good thing while its being bumped around in my 
backpack!

--Michael.


Tom R. no spam wrote:

>It's worth mentioning the problem that if you tried to do something
>with your iBook before the menu bar time was corrected to current time,
>the iBook might freeze or do other wierd stuff.  And that therefore a
>rule of thumb was not to do anything until the time display was right.
>Is this still a problem with eg 10.2.6?  I don't want to try any
>experiments, but figure it's worth mentioning.
>
>And can an iBook--or OSX in general?--really do things while
>*sleeping*?  Cf unix cron jobs run while the computer is on and running,
>not while sleeping, right?
>