Timer does not anymore on when W11 goes to Sleep.

Dimitri

I'm on W11, using the latest version of the app according to the app store (V2.14.12.0).
I use it for basic time tracking of how long I work daily.
It used to work fine - with the only "issue" that I had to remember to manually stop the timer when i was turning off the computer, but did not have to do that when I was putting the computer to sleep.
After a recent update, the timer does not stop on sleep anymore (and still does not stop on shutdown).

Those are my timer control settings

Thanks a lot for any support you can provide.

timo

WorkingHours does not have a "stop timer on sleep" functionality. As you can see, "sleep" is not shown in your screenshot. It stops the timer either on the user idle notification sent by Windows or when you are logging out.

Does the timer start when you log in to or log out from Windows?
Did I understand correctly that the timer also doesnt stop when you are shutting down Windows?

Dimitri

Until about a month ago, the timer used to stop when I clicked on Start menu > Sleep (But did not stop when I was pressing on Start menu > Shutdown, which was fine since I use Sleep most of the time).
Now it does not stop in either cases.

I seem to remember the WorkingHours change log refering to an update of the stop timer implementation, but I'm not sure where I would seen that, the Windows App Store only shows the latest change log that does not have any reference to it.

Note that I tried uninstalling and re-installing WorkingHours but that has not made a difference.

What does "logging out" refer to in the options?

timo

WorkingHours did undergo a big rework that changed how certain features work.

Dimitri What does "logging out" refer to in the options?

Again: Does the timer start as expected when you log in to Windows? You have set it to "Start/resume timer":

Please also update to the latest version 2.15.1 - most likely it won't make a difference, but just to be sure...

Also, do you see any WorkingHours-related crash reports in the Windows Event viewer program under "Windows Logs" -> "Applications"?

Also, is the WorkingHours app window running when you shut down? If WorkingHours is not running, it does not receive the shutdown event

timo

I think I will just handle the "sleep" notification on Windows just like I will add support for this on macOS (see here). I might also rename the "When logging out" text in the settings to "When logging out or going to sleep" or something similar so that it's clear that the app pauses/stops the timer on both logout and OS sleep.
Please note that - just like with the "log out" - the app needs to be running in order to handle the OS event