Time warping and Daylight Savings Time

How do you time warp? Not that I would do it but when I tried with the old game early on in getting it, my mothers never stopped nursing! It sucked had to start over. Anyway that little glitch made me wonder, what happens with day light savings time? Will it glitch on its own? Goddessjuno

Normally, the time changes involved with Daylight Savings Time don't affect the game, because they occur overnight when most people aren't playing the game. If your game is off overnight (meaning that you have Quit the game), the clock will be adjusted before you start it back up in the morning, and there will simply be one more or one less hour since the game was last run.

The only time you have to be concerned about the time change is when you are actually running the game at the time the system clock is adjusted. It's best just to turn the game off (Quit) for the night twice a year when the DST changes occur.

But with congress having changed the date, our computers aren't going to change on the right day now... You will have to adjust it yourself... So I am taking it from your post that as long as we don't have the game up and running when we adjust the time for DST everything will be ok?

There is an update for your operating system that will take the new DST dates into consideration. If you choose not to install the update, then just don't adjust your clock while the game is running.

Would one find the update on microsofts website?

Yes, that would be a great place to find the update if you're running Windows. For Mac users, there's also an update available from Apple.

Thank you for the information...

wow ya learn something new every day I didn't even know they changed the days. Anyone happen to know the new dates?

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html

Beginning in 2007, most of the United States begins Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and reverts to standard time on the first Sunday in November. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.

So for 2007, DST starts March 11 at 2am and ends Nov 4 at 2am.

thanks

funny the things you can learn from "game sites"
Learn about DST, heck I even learned some HTML coding from hanging out at a different site.
Don't ever let anyone tell you online games sites are worthless.. I've learned tons from them

What will happen to those of playing in totally different time zones?????? I am in the UK so I am often online when the clock changes occur in the USA!

The clock changes are the ones on your own PC.. the UK also goes to DST, doesn't it?

Yes, but we call it BST (British Summer Time).

heh yeh.. sorry I forgot

Do you ever wonder what were saving daylight for?
Does it accrue intrest?
What bank is it saved at?
What if I don't want to save it anymore can I spend it?


teehee

I love it, I knew this was a great site, just didn't know how great!

my question is who was the person to come up with the idea of daylight savings time and what did he or she have over everyone to get it passed? :-)

Did you ever follow the link posted above? It gives the reason behind the idea and why so many countries follow it. Click on "Rationale and Original Idea"

Reposted link:
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html

It was originally intended for the farmers to have extra hours of daylight for working the crops.

Once upon a time, there were no computers (GASP), electronic gadgets, cell phones or cordless phones. In fact, most people didn't have televisions (oh, these were only in black & white) and usually only one telephone in a home. There were very few automobiles on the roads and the milkman and breadman delivered to your door everyday.

During this time, the farmers were aplenty because the government didn't pay them to not farm. These farmers and their families needed to supply the stores with vegetables and fruit to make money. So, Uncle Sam, came up with this great idea called "Daylight Savings Time" to change the clock by one hour which would provide more time to work the fields before darkness set in.

Unfortunately, in the real world it doesn't stay daylight all the time like on Isola.

So should we PAUSE the game before shutting it down or continue to let it run at whatever speed we have it set on and quit the game before the time change?

pause

The game does not need to be paused, as long as you quit the game. The "Spring forward" isn't nearly as dangerous as the "Fall back" for your little villagers. If the game is running when the time change happens, it will suddenly be an hour later and the game will normally just play "catch up" for that hour.

Thank you!

I think the fall time change messed up my VV1 game because I was playing it when it happened and I don't want a repeat of that.

I was wondering aobut that.

Does anyone know if the system restore option in Windows XP is like time warping? I was having some problems and was just wondering if a system restore would affect the game at all. I guess the safest thing to do would be to backup my game.

A system restore will usually not affect the game, unless you also change your computer's clock in the process. It's never a bad idea, however, to back up your games before doing a system restore (just in case something goes wrong).

That makes we wonder. Will it remember if, say, it was 2012, it was February 29th? Not that that really matters.

what is daylight savings time?

Hello Bram. There’s a link about Daylight Saving Time posted earlier in this thread. Click here to view the post, or for additional information you may want to read the entire discussion.

I cant open that link. Its keep loading and says No data received ..

I stil didnt understand what daylight saving is?

That link works fine for me in the UK. Here's another link - hopefully that'll work for you: http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/.

thanks.that link is working.but I still didnt understand what is it. I lives in Indonesia, somebody tell me that here we have 12 hour sun and night. that sites just tell europe country.. do DST does only happen on country that have more night or more afternoon?

That explains it. Since you live in Indonesia you're close to the equator where there's very little difference between the length of day or night throughout the year. That means DST isn't needed.

ok..thats why I didnt understand this ..