Lurkily, it is not true that aging continues if you pause the game and leave it running. You're misinterpreting a scenario from earlier games (and it's not true there, either, as long as you don't leave those games on the menu or options screen).

MickyTeddy, the current version of VV3 is 1.00.04 (the only way to determine the version is by looking at the game's menu screen, not by looking at file info). The only people who might still have v1.00.02 or v1.00.03 are people who bought the game in the first two weeks of release and purchased VV3 directly from LDW, and not another game portal (which all have v1.00.04). If you have an earlier version, you can see how to get 1.00.04 for Mac in this post.