PLEASE provide an option to make game days last as long as real days.

[TritochHuntr]

Lambdafish also brings up a good point—if you’re asking for an option to toggle the game clock to matching your clock, that will mess with several other systems already in place, mainly DoL systems that rely on the game’s clock for timed gathering nodes, since they are based on Eorzean Time (which, as you know, is multitudes faster than real time), and Eorzean Time is a set configuration server-side. It could also affect the weather, as the weather changes on a set schedule (I believe it’s every 12 Eorzean hours? I could be wrong, but it does change in set intervals), which would affect Sightseeing Vistas and fishing (as awful as the weather-based fishes can be, this is something to consider).

How would you propose the developers fix these issues, if you’re asking to have the option to toggle a game’s day time to match your own?

Did you actually read my entire original post? I addressed all those issues in it, aside from weather.

I don't have any experience with DoL classes yet, so it seemed to me as if the weather was primarily cosmetic. I might not know all the solutions or problems that could arise, but I will say this:

If Square Enix will hire me, I will gladly implement this issue myself. That is how badly I want to have longer days/nights in game. (I am a programmer with over 12 years professional experience, btw, so I am accustomed to dealing with all the problems that come up when implementing a new feature, and coming up with solutions for them.)

I'd like to also add that it makes a lot of business sense (for Square Enix) to implement this option. You'll capture a lot more of the WoW crowd this way. I came from WoW (which has full length days and nights) and I almost gave up on FFXIV because it really bothered me how the days/nights were so short. I know I am not alone in this. 10 million WoW players means a lot of potential future FFXIV customers.