Energy Saver Schedule Shut down

Does the shut down feature of the Energy Saver Schedule work?
John Holt wrote on :

Does the shut down feature of the Energy Saver Schedule work?
Actually, to be more precise, what would be running that would prevent it from working? Running 10.3.8 on both a G5 iMac and G5 Power Mac.

Thanks in advance,

Ilgaz Ocal replied on :

On 2005-03-29 04:39:17 +0300, John Holt jdholt77@redacted.invalid said:

Does the shut down feature of the Energy Saver Schedule work?
Actually, to be more precise, what would be running that would prevent it from working? Running 10.3.8 on both a G5 iMac and G5 Power Mac.

Thanks in advance,

I can only guess, an application hanged will cancel the shut down. Or, e.g. you wrote a document and didn't save changes.

Some applications are slow to systems "quit" requests, so OS will think it is hung up, won't bother with shutting down.

E.g. imagine angry authors calling Apple about losing their latest book :)

Ilgaz