Dochtar 7 Posted July 28, 2012 So the company im renting a server from (HFB) says the only way to keep the server day time is to edit the mission file?Now i might be wrong but im pretty sure i been on a server before where i played all day where it has been light, or maybe when they restarted the server the tiem reset somehow?Anyone have any information on this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dcskill 117 Posted July 28, 2012 You cannot keep your server always on day. It needs to stick to one timezone. It makes it equal like every other server with a day/night cycle. Dem rules. Don't break em. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dochtar 7 Posted July 28, 2012 Aint planning on breaking the rules just trying to get information since today it the first day i have my server. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryahn 112 Posted July 28, 2012 It requires modifying the mission file. Which is not allowed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SystemiK 366 Posted July 28, 2012 The loot spawns are tied to the server time, so locking a certain time of day breaks quite a few things with regard to spawning. This system may be changed at some point in the future but for now, that's how the code is built. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rokochan 26 Posted July 28, 2012 So the company im renting a server from (HFB) says the only way to keep the server day time is to edit the mission file?Now i might be wrong but im pretty sure i been on a server before where i played all day where it has been light, or maybe when they restarted the server the tiem reset somehow?Anyone have any information on this? well you could do it manually without modifying anything cept for the time zone changer on your server config if you have one.just take down the server, change the time setting and save, fire the server back up. takes less than one minute, but you have to know which timezone in the world is currently night.Did some test on my server, around 9 pm EST my time, i set the server to UTC -6 it's like 10 am ~12 pm in game. you can mess with the time zone change to adjust for the daytime Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dochtar 7 Posted July 28, 2012 Thanks for all the replies. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SystemiK 366 Posted July 28, 2012 well you could do it manually without modifying anything cept for the time zone changer on your server config if you have one.just take down the server, change the time setting and save, fire the server back up. takes less than one minute, but you have to know which timezone in the world is currently night.Did some test on my server, around 9 pm EST my time, i set the server to UTC -6 it's like 10 am ~12 pm in game. you can mess with the time zone change to adjust for the daytimeI think you may be misunderstanding what the OP is hoping to do ( or I am misundersting what you suggest). He seems to want to introduce permanent daylight on the server by locking down the time. This will break the loot spawns as each time the loot script checks against server time it will be given a return of "not enough time has passed, don't respawn loot". Sure, you can change the server time, but you cannot lock it down. In order for the spawn system to work properly, time of day cannot be static. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SluttyYutty 1 Posted July 28, 2012 Aren't ppl already getting away with always daytime? I've been playing for the last 4 days and have only ran into one server @ nighttime. Even when I pick timezones that should be night they're day & I've checked out same servers both night and day my time. I'm guessing everytime ppl take a server down for maintance they reset the clock back to the server start time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
liukang168 4 Posted July 28, 2012 violation of dayz rules ... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jkerr 0 Posted October 3, 2012 well you could do it manually without modifying anything cept for the time zone changer on your server config if you have one.just take down the server, change the time setting and save, fire the server back up. takes less than one minute, but you have to know which timezone in the world is currently night.Did some test on my server, around 9 pm EST my time, i set the server to UTC -6 it's like 10 am ~12 pm in game. you can mess with the time zone change to adjust for the daytimeI don't see the spot to set the timezone in my config.cfg - what is the setting? Thanks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thesidetalker (DayZ) 7 Posted October 4, 2012 I don't see the spot to set the timezone in my config.cfg - what is the setting? Thanks!Timezone of the computer that runs the DayZ server. The game time is the same as the time on the machine when the game loads. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jkerr 0 Posted October 4, 2012 Ah - so you can't set the server to have a different time/timezone from the box it's running on? Thought that'd be a config setting somewhere... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jespejo 0 Posted November 28, 2012 (edited) I started my server for the first time last nite and I set the Server W2k8 to GMT+11 from 9pm EST. I have shut down the server reset the clock back to EST 8am and rebooted and the server still shows GMT+11. I want it to stay on on GMT -5 (EST) but I can't now? This changing the Server Clock it malarkey! How do you reset the Game to start all over?**Update**: We Use BLISS setup, so this is what we had to do add to the Hiveext.ini file[Date];Possible valuse: Local, StaticType=Static;if using Static type, the year/month/date to set the date to Full Moon use 7/3/12Year = 2012Month = 7Date = 3[Database];Possible values: local, Custom, staticType = Custom;If using Custom type, offset from UTC in hours (can be negative as well)Offset = -10;If using Static type (Hour valuse always the same on every server start), the value (0-24) to set the Hour to);Hour = x Edited November 28, 2012 by Solozone Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
