Couple questions regarding Day/Night Cycle

[Avalir]

Ok, I run a dedicated server for myself and a couple of friends. Now first question is, does the game halt completely when no one is on?(like seven days to die?) I don't have a password set so i know anyone could have logged in and played through a couple of day cycles while i was not on, but it was literally the amount of time between two day cycles, kinda coincidental.

Secondly, after some point does the day/night cycle speed increase? I know the standard is like two hours, the game just went through an entire 24 hour cycle in less than one hour. is this normal? Or is my server bugged? Is there a command or setting I can run/change to fix this if it is bugged?

I'm on day 14 playing on easy mode.

[SleepyEyez]

The game time halts completely when no one is on the server; nonetheless, there have been bug reports before saying that time could still progress without anyone online.

As far as I know, the game time progresses at a constant rate (1 ingame day = 2 real hours) unless changed via a console command (slomo, default to 1), which I don't think would work in a dedicated server since most console commands are blocked by the server; however, maybe there is a loophole or some other methods that I'm not aware of. This command not only speeds up day/night cycle but also every other things (walking, attacking, mining machines, animal traps, etc but not despawning time of dropped items).

If the slomo command is somehow the culprit, a server reboot will reset that parameter back to 1. If this doesn't fix it, then please report it in the bug forum.

To see who has logged into the server, open the text file of your server log which is saved in
<NotD Dedicated Server Installation Folder>\LF\Saved\Logs\
and seach for this string "Join succeeded:" without the quotations.

[Avalir]

Thanks Very much for ythe info. I honestly don't even know how to open the console for inputing commands. but i ended up shutting down my server and restarting it and it seemed to fix the day cycle. I'll check now to see if anyone has logged in. Thanks again