Time on PowerBooks

[Seth Dimbert]

The following is a forwarded message from the mailing list of the
MacJournals.com.

The issue is an odd behavior seen when a PowerBook wakes from sleep. A user
has noticed that it takes the Menu Bar clock in OS X some time to set itself
to the updated time; as many as 15 seconds according to some reports. The
question is, is this a GUI thing or a system time thing?

Can someone check for this behavior in YDL for me, please?

Just put your machine to sleep for more than a few minutes then, upon
waking, watch the GUI clock and see how long it takes to set iteself to the
correct time.

Thanks!

-SD

> Just a thought.....
> 
> Would there be any relevance testing something like this on a laptop running
> Linux, Windows or OS 9? (although I'm not sure if it could be an apples to
> apples test in any way)
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>>>> mis-jack@syda.org 12/09/03 07:53PM >>>
> On my iBook running Panther 10.3.1, I appears to take about 3-4 seconds from
> opening the lid to the time snapping forward.
> 
> Jack
> 
>> From: "MacJournals-Talk" <MacJournals-Talk@lists.macjournals.com>
>> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 00:00:01 -0600
>> To: "MacJournals-Talk" <MacJournals-Talk@lists.macjournals.com>
>> Subject: MacJournals-Talk Digest - 12/09/03
>> 
>> 
>> From: Peter Jerde <peter@jerde.net>
>> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:32:33 -0600
>> Subject: Re: We get letters
>> 
>> I'm guessing that very few people have seen the specific reported
>> behavior:
>> 
>> After waking up, the clock (in the menu bar and as reported by the OS
>> to apps) continues running from the time at which the machine was put
>> to sleep. Somewhere from 30 seconds to a minute later, the clock snaps
>> forward to the present (correct) time. It's during that weird
>> half-minute that security vulnerabilities would exist.
>> 
>> This is different from what Matt observes -- the few seconds of no
>> event processing after wake-up. Instead, this is a fully functional
>> machine running with the clock back in time.
>> 
>> I can't duplicate this, now, on my 17" PBG4 running Panther -- maybe
>> whatever this is was fixed in Panther. I don't remember if I last saw
>> this on my current laptop, or the 15" titanium, or an old Pismo... but
>> I know I've seen it in Jaguar. I didn't see it every time, either.
>> 
>> - Peter
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