[NTLK] Followup: Need info on To Do items rollover

[Dan]

On 3/15/2023 3:26 PM, NewtonTalk wrote:

> That's really weird. I tried to reproduce the rollover as follows:
> 
> 1) Using the clock, I set time and date to the current time and date.
> 
> 2) I add both a Date entry and a To Do entry. Both lie 3 days in the future.
> 
> 3) I change time and date to 2:59am of the next day and switch the eMate
> off, expecting that it should turn on in the next minute to do its rollover
> thing. I make sure that it is off while it's still 2:59am.
> 
> No rollover happens. I even measured the current drawn from the battery,
> which would certainly increase at least a tiny bit while the eMate is
> actually doing something. Even if whatever it does is done while the display
> is turned off.
> 
> I'm also a bit puzzled that the display is said to be switched on in the
> first place. I mean, what would be the purpose of that if the eMate's lid is
> closed! And even if it's NOT closed: The Apple Engineers certainly chose
> 3:00am because they thought that most people sleep at that time of the day.
> So switching the display on would only draw unnecessary power from the
> battery and maybe even wake them up.
> 
> Be it as it may: What am I doing wrong here? Could it be that this rollover
> thing only happens if Eckhart's time/date patch isn't installed?
> 
> Weird, really weird...

Well I have been awake and looking at my Newton with the lid open and see the screen come on at 3am then go off a few seconds later.  When I first saw it I think it was with my 130, but it might have been a 120 with the 2.0 of the OS.  Either way long before Eckhart's patch.  I thought I had a problem so I asked around (back when this list was a part of Planet Newton) and it was mentioned about the 3am time.  I had noticed the TODOS rolled over but never knew exactly when.  Perhaps it takes longer than a minute before it kicks into this mode at 3am?  Perhaps it setting it at 2:30am would work?

I agree it would take unnecessary power from the battery, but then again it would take more logic and design to turn it on yet not have the screen power on.  Cost cutting measure I suspect, and for a device that lasted weeks or a month on normal use (ah the days before wifi etc sucked batteries dry in a day or less) not a huge deal to turn it on a for a few seconds every night.

-Dan