I tried this for the first time and was enjoying it so much I wanted it to go quicker! I had 12 adult villagers and 3 children, and was waiting getting the hut built so couldn't have any more babies yet - I wanted to go to bed and set some babies growing! As I had seen on here that you could change the clock on the palm by an hour or two to advance the game, I did this a couple of times and it seemed fine. I had done this before with fish tycoon, and it worked fine. Unfortunately I then did it again and it all went horribly wrong!

I had advanced the clock by 2 hours (from 11pm to 1 am), and nothing much seemed to have changed - but when I put the clock back to the normal time a couple of minutes later, all but 6 of my villagers had died - but the food had gone up a lot and so had the tech points!

Its like it had advanced way too far, although in fact the clock had gone back 2 hours!
It was going backwards and forwards past midnight, so I wondered if it maybe it thought it was a whole day gone by, instead of going back a couple of hours. The clock was definitely right on the palm though, and so was the date.

Anyway, just thought I would let you know, in case any one else had the same problem!

Sarah, are you sure that when you went from 11pm to 1am, that you changed the date, too? It's easy to forget. I've killed off villagers that way - I forget to set the date correctly going forward AND backward (two date changes) and the game thinks a whole day has gone by. It's dangerous to mess with the clock near midnight and noon - it's that pesky am/pm and date thing!

Yes, I'm sure - I didn't actually change the time by entering numbers, I just used the up and down arrow to roll the clock forward and back, and I was fairly sure it changed the date by itself. If it didn't change the date though, and thinking it was going from 2300 to 0100 in the same day, then wouldn't it just be going back to earlier in the same day, then back to the correct time, so shouldn't cause a problem? More confused now - I'll have a look later and see what it does if it does change the date or not - with the game pused of course to prevent disater!

In general the game should forgive setting the clock backwards. This has been confirmed in testing, but anything is possible.

In original versions of our earlier games, setting the clock backward would kill everything as you have described.

Ah well, i suppose it will teach me not to try and hurry it along then.

Just have to go with the flow and enjoy it!

I have a T3, and can say for sure that I have had the same unfortunate experience, as my date does not change automatically. Changing the time around noon and midnight usually needs a little more thought, before returning to the game.

My other observation on time changing, is that it mucks the stats up, as hours played seems to be actual hours....not forwarded hours......hence I do also force myself to be patient for the occasional game

I was able to get as far as I did so fast with changing my TH-55 clock ahead 2,3 or even 4 hours ahead. However, I skipped doing this when the date was close to changing or I waited to set the time back until I got up in the morning.
It's a daytime trick to me.
It looks like Sarah may have overlooked the date. When I scroll my time numbers back the date does not go back a day before midnight but only goes to the next day in the evening.

Tim