Runasdate / time stopper for mac?

[dontlan]

I'm in need of a time stopper / runasdate for a particular application. I've searched internet for a bit but it is hard to find one. Anyone knows if there's one please?

 

[bogdanw]

Someone made an AppleScript, that can be saved as an app https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/92102
Save a script as an app in Script Editor on Mac https://support.apple.com/guide/script-editor/scpedt1072/mac

 

[dontlan]

Someone made an AppleScript, that can be saved as an app https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/92102
Save a script as an app in Script Editor on Mac https://support.apple.com/guide/script-editor/scpedt1072/mac

Sorry, I have bad English, what script do I need? I need the programme to never change the time. Literally an analogue of runasdate

 

[bogdanw]

This one:

--Get time setting for action to occur
set t to "3:16:30 PM"
--build a time string to use as a target.
set cd to (current date) as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
set targetTime to text items 1 thru -3 of cd
set targetTime to date ((targetTime as text) & " " & t)

repeat while (current date) < targetTime
    beep
    delay 30 -- check the time every 30 seconds
end repeat

tell application "Mail"
    quit
end tell

Replace "3:16:30 PM" with the time you want your app to close and "Mail" with the name of the app you want to close.

 

[dontlan]

This one:

--Get time setting for action to occur
set t to "3:16:30 PM"
--build a time string to use as a target.
set cd to (current date) as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
set targetTime to text items 1 thru -3 of cd
set targetTime to date ((targetTime as text) & " " & t)

repeat while (current date) < targetTime
    beep
    delay 30 -- check the time every 30 seconds
end repeat

tell application "Mail"
    quit
end tell

Replace "3:16:30 PM" with the time you want your app to close and "Mail" with the name of the app you want to close.

I don't need to close the app, I need it to always work but the time in it stopped, is this possible?

 

[bogdanw]

Sorry, I didn't understand what you meant.
You are probably referring to
"RunAsDate is a small utility that allows you to run a program in the date and time that you specify."
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html

Unfortunately, I don’t know an easy replacement for that. Some alternatives
libfaketime https://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime
Faketime https://hitchdev.com/faketime/

 

[NoBoMac]

Not quite understanding as well, but to add to above, Launch Agents are made for this type of task. But will admit, not as straightforward as an app to do that.

Creating Launch Daemons and Agents

Explains how to write background processes that perform work on behalf of applications or serve content over the network.

developer.apple.com