Inaccurate timer

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edited October 2014 in MPQ General Discussion
Did anybody else have their timer show there was still 47 minutes left when Fresh Cut ended? I just lost out on a blue cover because the game told me there was still time left before the last push.

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    It showed the correct time for me, maybe your clock is out of sync.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    dragma wrote:
    It showed the correct time for me, maybe your clock is out of sync.

    Nope. My clock was correct. The game just added 47 minutes.
  • GrumpySmurf1002
    GrumpySmurf1002 Posts: 3,511 Chairperson of the Boards
    Vertigozooropa wrote:
    dragma wrote:
    It showed the correct time for me, maybe your clock is out of sync.

    Nope. My clock was correct. The game just added 47 minutes.

    The game clock can get out of sync, it happens to me on Steam all the time.

    If I close the computer with the game open and it goes to sleep mode, when I open the computer back up it looks like time stopped. In other words, if I clear a node from PvE, close the computer, then come back an hour later, the game clock will show I still have 2:24 to go before it refreshes, when reality is it's 1:24.

    Closing the game and restarting fixes it every time.

    Bigger picture: PvP events end at 1am or 1pm EST, without exception (at least right now). If your game clock is leading you to something different, it's out of sync.
  • _RiO_
    _RiO_ Posts: 1,047 Chairperson of the Boards
    GrumpySmurf1002 wrote:
    If I close the computer with the game open and it goes to sleep mode, when I open the computer back up it looks like time stopped. In other words, if I clear a node from PvE, close the computer, then come back an hour later, the game clock will show I still have 2:24 to go before it refreshes, when reality is it's 1:24.

    Closing the game and restarting fixes it every time.

    Sounds like the devs tied countdown clock updates to the application main render loop or something equally stupid, instead of going through the proper system clock APIs.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    The PVP end times are not a fluctuating scale.

    Every PVP that ends on Wednesday ends at 1pm EDT.
    Every PVP that ends on Friday ends at 1am EDT
    Every PVP that ends on Sunday ends at 1am EDT.

    There is no variation.
    At all.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Well that used to be noon and midnight so there was slight variation, once.
  • MarvelMan
    MarvelMan Posts: 1,350
    I run into this fairly frequently so I just have to go by the guidelines posted by Onimus. Ive closed the ap, force closed it, restarted the phone, everything. Havent figured out a fix either.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    onimus wrote:
    The PVP end times are not a fluctuating scale.

    Every PVP that ends on Wednesday ends at 1pm EDT.
    Every PVP that ends on Friday ends at 1am EDT
    Every PVP that ends on Sunday ends at 1am EDT.

    There is no variation.
    At all.
    Nuh-uh! PvPs always end at 10am/pm for me! How can it be different for me?!
    Just kidding. West Coast over here

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