Ingame Clock Server Time bugged? [NA]
Patch notes May 20th, 2014:
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Since launch the server time option for the in game clock would coincide with the pst/pdt time in the west coast of the USA (which is where there servers were located).
Right now it is 10:35pm pacific time yet the ingame clock is showing 5:35am. So the servers have been moved to the middle of the Atlantic?Is this a bug?
Regardless of the reason, it’s an awful change.
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Since launch the server time option for the in game clock would coincide with the pst/pdt time in the west coast of the USA (which is where there servers were located).
Right now it is 10:35pm pacific time yet the ingame clock is showing 5:35am. So the servers have been moved to the middle of the Atlantic?Is this a bug?
Regardless of the reason, it’s an awful change.
- You can set the clock to show your local time.
- The NA servers are located in Texas, not Seattle, so “server time” never represented their actual time.
- The clock now shows the actual time for the servers, rather than the time on your computer (offset to show “server” or local time).
The last is important for a couple of reasons: resets have always happened at midnight for the server’s internal clock and that will remain true, through whatever Daylight Savings might be observed in your area. Second, the time will always be consistent with what the game thinks the time is, preventing certain types of errors (e.g. when you think you have 3 minutes to complete dailies, but the game doesn’t).
Like any change, it takes some getting used to.
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Since launch the server time option for the in game clock would coincide with the pst/pdt time in the west coast of the USA (which is where there servers were located).
Right now it is 10:35pm pacific time yet the ingame clock is showing 5:35am. So the servers have been moved to the middle of the Atlantic?Is this a bug?
Regardless of the reason, it’s an awful change.
Still not a bug.
Since launch the server time option for the in game clock would coincide with the pst/pdt time in the west coast of the USA (which is where there servers were located).
Right now it is 10:35pm pacific time yet the ingame clock is showing 5:35am. So the servers have been moved to the middle of the Atlantic?Is this a bug?
Regardless of the reason, it’s an awful change.
Still not a bug.
I think this is getting the rest of the game ready to have the timekeeping coding reworked. I think it is actually supposed to eliminate a lot of bugs.
I don’t think it will ‘eliminate’ a lot of bugs. What it does do, is make it easier and simpler for other countries, and to not have such different versions of the client. It is annoying though, because for most in NA, they do not know what UTC is. I mean, think about how many people don’t know what Pacific or Eastern time is, despite it only being 3 hour difference, and these are time zones in NA that probably covers half the population.