Time  Nick           Message
16:28 andy1978       Hi at all. Is it possible, that server time for draconis mods runs even when no player is logged in? I've read that minetest only updates chunks with player in it (and thus only time passes where player are online)
16:29 andy1978       Buf I've placed several fire dragon eggs, logged off, shutdown the server and after login the next day all eggs were hatched
16:30 rubenwardy     if the server has shutdown then time won't be running. However, gametime still continues with no players online
16:31 celeron55      the server time does always run and is taken into account in various things (e.g. ABMs are designed to catch up, unless you disable that)
16:32 Krock          OpenTTD may pause the game time when no-one is online, which might also be an interesting idea for Minetest
16:33 celeron55      that's not a bad idea. it would save a bit of server resources also
16:33 ireallyhateirc would be good to have an option for the server to go standby mode when no one's playing (to stop time until player joins)
16:33 celeron55      i mean, as an option
16:33 Krock          however, I think that node timers use system time to catch up
16:34 Krock          thus stopping game time does not 100% result in what you'd like to have
16:34 celeron55      well it would result in the same thing as automatically shutting down the server on last player leaving
16:35 celeron55      or, at least close to it
16:35 Krock          for node timers it does not matter whether the server runs or not. they'd expire more or less at the same time and trigger at the next best occasion
16:37 rubenwardy     makes sense for a setting
16:37 rubenwardy     also I've been addicted to OpenTTD recently, send help
16:39 Krock          I could help you by joining your company and grouping the trains for easier management if that's what you meant.
16:40 ireallyhateirc btw minetest has no command to set day. I wrote one for Exile but it's really hacky. It basically sets time to milliseconds before midnight, lets the day pass and then repeats as long as needed to change the date
16:41 Krock          /settime 12000
16:41 Krock          it's in the format of hour * 1000
16:42 ireallyhateirc oooh let me test that
16:42 rubenwardy     can also do `/settime 12:00`
16:42 rubenwardy     unless I made that up
16:47 ireallyhateirc this simply sets time to midnight
16:47 ireallyhateirc or midday
16:48 ireallyhateirc that's what I wrote
16:48 ireallyhateirc https://codeberg.org/Mantar/Exile/src/commit/8f7be7b304c1acb14e66e2fca5e95ec025df432e/mods/nodes_nature/seasons.lua#L59
16:50 rubenwardy     ah yeah, date not time of day