Fix Server Time to be actual server time

[Wade]

Can server time please be based on the actual server time? As in sent as a packet every x seconds to tell the clients "this is the actual server time".

For those who weren't aware, and from what I can gather, server time is currently calculated client side based on your clock, time zone and possibly location. How do I know this? Well here's one example:

[11:46][FC]<x> tell me server time
[11:46][FC]<y> 11:46
[11:46][FC]<x> why mine doesn*t change
[11:47][FC]<z> what does it shows?
[11:47][FC]<x> 10:46

That's from just now and person x is not the only person. That's the 2nd person in our FC recently with the wrong server time - something that should not be possible.

I have no idea why server time is not 100% reliable and why it was decided it should be based on local calculations but it needs fixing - it is currently not a 100% reliable way of coordinating time even though it should be.

On that subject: last tuesdays maintenance was scheduled to finish at 10GMT and it finished at 9GMT (10BST / GMT+1) - GMT is the same as UTC - it doesn't change!

Here's a great example. All I did was set my time zone ahead two hours and voila!
This photo was taken at 12:16 UTC (13:16 BST) - the PC clock is right, the game ST thinks it's now 3:16 because I put the time zone forward 2 hours, launched the game then put it back.



tl;dr: Please make server time universal (lets go with UTC) and send it via packets to the clients so no calculations are done client side.

[Krindor]

Click the time at the top which changes from local time to server time. The server times is always the same for everyone. For EU this is GMT including summer time.

[Wade]

As my example shows (first post) server time is not the same for everyone - otherwise I'd have not posted this!

[aesteval]

On maintenance completion times: sometimes maintenance just finishes early and it's not a result of DST or lack thereof.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/f...threads/287450

[Wade]

This is sometimes true, yes - but often they do get GMT wrong as it will finish exactly one hour early - it used to happen, then it stopped but seems to have started again with the last patch Tuesday.

Ignoring patches - evidence above showing ST is not ST at all.

[Wade]

Added a photo to OP to show how easy it is to screw up ST.

[Inzoum]

Japan doesn't have daylight saving time. this is why there's a shift since a few weeks. Nothing to do with patches or updates.

[ruskie]

I've noticed this myself at times ST at one point matched my LT(which is CET) so there definitely is an issue somewhere.

[Culfinrandir]

Click the time at the top which changes from local time to server time. The server times is always the same for everyone. For EU this is GMT including summer time.

It would have been so nice if you'd actually read the post the OP made. He clearly stated that two people, in the same FC, on the same server, showed two different server times. The Server Time is therefore completely unrelated to anything other than the Local Time from the PC (& possibly PS4 if it has an internal clock).

[Krindor]

It would have been so nice if you'd actually read the post the OP made. He clearly stated that two people, in the same FC, on the same server, showed two different server times. The Server Time is therefore completely unrelated to anything other than the Local Time from the PC (& possibly PS4 if it has an internal clock).

Like any support would do you start with the thinking that the person you're helping is special until it's proven otherwise. You read this post after OP edited his post with proof that the server time was computer side. OP also mentioned that he wanted them to make server time universal which it is. The amount of players were this issue is a problem probably amounts to maybe 0.1% of the player base. If you know what time zone is in you can calculate the ST if it is wrong. The reason it was wrong was as mentioned in a previous post probably due to daylight saving.