Always Night

[Ari (DayZ) 0]

Date/Time: 6/20/12-6/21/12

What happened:I entered a server in my time zone (GMT -6) to find that it was night on the server, even though in reality it was 3pm. I tried to enter various other servers that day and the next, only to be stumped by this glitch.

Where you were:Near the NW airfield.

What you were doing: Just spawned, hoping to get some loot from the barracks at the south of the airfield.

*Current installed version: 1.7.1.5

*Server(s) you were on: I tried 10+ servers, including Chicago 35, Atlanta 22, and Dallas 41 (servers in or near my timezone.)

[kicktd 42]

Same problem here so you're not alone. There's another thread below with the title "Daylight (time) out of sync with other players" which others are mentioning the same thing or their in game time being different from those of other players on the same server so not sure what's going on here.

[kicktd 42]

Just a little update: I've got the latest beta patch installed and use it and all the servers I've tried to join I make sure they're using the beta patch, well all those servers it's night time. I just joined a server NOT running any beta patch and the time is just fine now and it's all nice and sunny.

[Ari (DayZ) 0]

Update:

Not only is it night when it should be day, it is still night at all other times. I logged into a server today at 1pm, and it said the server time was 2am. The server was in New York (NY2), which is an hour ahead of my timezone, so I understand where the 2 came from, not the am part. So I login to the same server at 9:30 pm today and it is still night. Going by the time of the server earlier, it should now be 10:30 am on this server. However, it is 10:30pm, and still pitch black. DCing and RCing, as suggested on another thread, did not fix this problem. Please, if someone can explain this, please do so soon.

[Ari (DayZ) 0]

Found another suggestion to make sure that the server version matched the beta patch. Didn't help.

List of things I have tried:

1.Try server in timezone where it should be day.

--Result: Nightime

2.Try server in timezone where it should be night.

--Result: Nightime

3. Tried 1 + 2, then DC'ed and RC'ed to exact same servers.

--Result: Double Nightime

4: Tried 1 + 2 + 3 with servers with matched beta patches.

--Result: Double Nightime

5: Went back to DayZ 1.7.0, logged onto servers matching desc of 1 + 2.

--Result: Time in game matched server timezone.

I have therefore concluded that this is a problem with one of the new hotfixes. All my files are correctly set up, beta patches correctly installed, and servers carefully chosen.