How does the game define "Earth Time"?

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Originally Posted by Rongway

If you learn the daylight times instead, when we're no longer on daylight time, resets will happen when you think you still have an hour left.

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To be fair, that whole system is so broken/dumb, DT is literally longer than ST. So technically, probably actually better to remember DT, since you're spending less time in ST anyway.

(or we could finally wise up and just stop changing the clocks all the time)

When it says Earthtime, means your time, your timezone time you have configure in your PC. It is called "Local time" by the game.

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Originally Posted by kattzkitti

Not actually how that works, otherwise I could just go in and change my computer's clock and have the resets happen whenever I wanted.

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The many of hours until the reset will not change, but the displayed reset time ingame will change.


time until next reset: still 9 hours and 20 minutes ( [time until reset + current time of your machine] )

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

probably actually better to remember DT, since you're spending less time in ST anyway.

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If you only ever remember the resets in the DT frame of reference, you'll have as much time as you think you have to complete your goal, during 65% of the year; and you'll have an hour less than you think, during 35% of the year.

If you only ever remember the ST frame, you'll have at least as much time as you think you have to complete your goal, during 100% of the year.
I respectfully submit that this makes remembering the ST times the far better choice.

Besides that, in PST, most resets are either midnight or noon.

Er, when I care about resets, I just remember the "new" time after the swap. It's mostly a non-issue since both the roulette and crafting resets happen when I'm at work and weekly is when I'm asleep, but still. Well, and that right now I'm not doing as much due to a content lull..

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Originally Posted by Felis

The many of hours until the reset will not change, but the displayed reset time ingame will change.


time until next reset: still 9 hours and 20 minutes ( [time until reset + current time of your machine] )

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Yeah like I said, it is all based on the clock you are playing on, not sure why the OP would state "that is not how it works" when it does while they are the one asking the question

More specifically it is based on what timezone you have set on your machine--it won't change if you manually change the clock and not the timezone or daylight savings time status.