Screen lock implicitly pauses timer

[alynn-coefficient]

Hello! When my screen is locked because I've left the machine (meeting, tea, whatever) the timer doesn't decrease, only continuing when the screen is once again unlocked. This throws me off my timings a bit, it would be grand if this could be either turned off or configurable.

[ccidral]

What is probably happening is your MacOS automatically sleeps after some time which is causing the timer to suspend. If you simply lock the screen the timer keeps running. I'm not an expert in MacOS programming but it seems to me there might not be a way to keep the timer running while the system sleeps.

There's an option called "Prevent automatic sleeping on power adapter when the display is off" under the Battery system settings, in case you want to try that.

[alynn-coefficient]

For instance if I start a 20 minute long break at 12:00 and my laptop were asleep from 12:02 to 12:18, I think it's still {reasonable, possible} for the timer to go off at 12:20 rather than 12:36, no?

[ccidral]

Got it, I agree, in that case the app should be able to correct the remaining time.