Servertime

[cyan3]

Has anyone else noticed that the servertime is wrong?

[Elizabeth]

actually, i think its right, because at 24:00 on my tab on graal, the birthdays on the forums change.

[xXziroXx]

There should be a similar thread somewhere around here, with a few us mentioning the same thing. The servertime on servers (the timevar2 variable to be precise) is far from always accurate most of the time.

[Crow]

If it's just the timezone being off, its probably right. Since then it's most likely the correct time of the server location. Though, on alot of u/c servers, it's off by minutes aswell, which basically sucks.

[cyan3]

Originally Posted by Crow

If it's just the timezone being off, its probably right. Since then it's most likely the correct time of the server location. Though, on alot of u/c servers, it's off by minutes aswell, which basically sucks.

On the login server the time is 8 minutes behind according to my clock.

[CharlieM]

Or is your clock 8 minutes ahead?

[xXziroXx]

Originally Posted by CharlieM

Or is your clock 8 minutes ahead?

Don't be a smart ass. The timevar2 variable is off by 7 minutes, 34 minutes, 1 hour and 45 minutes, and even sometimes up to several hours. It changes it's accuracy more often then I change socks.

[CharlieM]

I was not being a smart ass, I'm sorry that I don't assume my almighty pc clock is exactly the right time, The server time has always been right for me when i've seen it and I don't think its that big of a deal anyways.
(sorry about bringing this back someone neg repped me in here using caps to start every word and didn't leave a name)

[xXziroXx]

Originally Posted by CharlieM

I was not being a smart ass, I'm sorry that I don't assume my almighty pc clock is exactly the right time, The server time has always been right for me when i've seen it and I don't think its that big of a deal anyways.
(sorry about bringing this back someone neg repped me in here using caps to start every word and didn't leave a name)

It's a huge deal for servers that want to have any form of dynamic world that triggers/change things depending on what time it is.

[CharlieM]

couldn't they just change them to fit it?

[xXziroXx]

Originally Posted by CharlieM

couldn't they just change them to fit it?

Yes, because having to manually modify a timevar2 every other day when it decides to spontaniously change is so optimal.

[CharlieM]

well couldn't they make it just loop or whatever every so often?

[xXziroXx]

Originally Posted by CharlieM

well couldn't they make it just loop or whatever every so often?

You don't seem the understand the issue.

Graal's built-in timevar2 variable changes itself from time to time to what appears as completely random values - there's only one thing that can fix it, and that's Stefan looking into it.

[cbk1994]

Rephrasing what Ziro said, Graal's time (used by scripts to tell time) is off. There's no way for a script to tell whether the time is off, because that's the only reference for time the script has, unless it wants to load data from a website or something.