Stop work when shutting down Windows

Silmar

The Windows Application works very well in terms of starting work when you log in, or pausing it when you leave the computer.
However, it does not stop work when you turn off the computer!
How can I make this work? Even via the command line? (I can add a command line to the Windows task when "logging out" or "shutting down" if necessary. Or, it could check that the computer has been too long without "running" the application and consider this time as the end of the work, synchronizing this in the cloud - and of course being identified by the application on the cell phone, which I use here only to control the time I worked on the computer.

WorkingHours version: 2.12.9.0
Windows 11 Pro

timo

This is not a bug, but simply a limitation because it isn't possible with the current technology I used to built the app (UWP). There's many existing threads about this, e.g.: Timer not stopping when I shutdown my computer

That said, I will migrate (I actually already migrated, but won't release before the end of my vacations 😃) to a new technology (WinUI3 / WinAppSDK). Then, the app will be able to stop the timer on logout or shutdown. I'll make this a planned feature request and it will come with one of the next updates, perhaps late-summer.

However, there will be some other limitations:

Because the shutdown signal isn't sent to the app itself, but to the main window of the app, the app will only be able to stop the timer if the app is running and the main window is visible. The timer won't be stopped if the app is closed
When you use the sync and the timer is stopped once the app receives the "shutdown" signal, it's not guaranteed that the app will also be able to sync that new information to the Cloud before the app is shut down by Windows - so on the phone it might look like the timer is still running