Server time

[srmalloy]

I was mildly annoyed, logging in at 1720 Pacific, to find that the New Years' fireworks box distribution had already ended, with /servertime showing 240101@0123. I would have expected the timing of the distribution to at least have been driven off of local time at the physical location of the servers, not GMT; if I had known the day would be rolling over at 1600 local, I would have made a greater effort to cycle characters through before then. Still, the boxes of fireworks are at best a cosmetic reward, so their absence isn't really significant, but it would have been nice to know in advance that date/time-restricted activities were driven off GMT, not EST/EDT (or some other timezone).

 

[Glacier Peak]

18 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

I was mildly annoyed, logging in at 1720 Pacific, to find that the New Years' fireworks box distribution had already ended, with /servertime showing 240101@0123. I would have expected the timing of the distribution to at least have been driven off of local time at the physical location of the servers, not GMT; if I had known the day would be rolling over at 1600 local, I would have made a greater effort to cycle characters through before then. Still, the boxes of fireworks are at best a cosmetic reward, so their absence isn't really significant, but it would have been nice to know in advance that date/time-restricted activities were driven off GMT, not EST/EDT (or some other timezone).

 

Yeah, I got my Fireworks after logging in on December 30th a little after 5PM Mountain Time, which leads me to believe it was in fact 31 December at 0000 GMT when the server event activated automatically.