The time lock safe doesn't work.

[Red]

Please help, the time lock safe doesn't work. I found the date, I program the opening one hour in advance, please help

[ricky1981]

There is a post saying this is a known issue for some people but it's worked for most of us. Are you 100% sure you have the right date? Maybe post your logic in spoiler tags so we can help.

If you head straight for the outdoor room from the start then set the correct date and opening time for 10am then you have to wait about 10-12 mins for it to open.

[Silvan]

Same here. No matter what I do it doesn't work

[Oyajuu]

I thought it did not work as well, but 2 things are really easy to miss:
- you need to set it at least one hour in the future. If it's 9:30 AM in game, set it to 11:00 AM.
- very important for people who use 24h time: the hour after 11AM is 12PM!!! The first time I found the safe, it was 10:30 AM, then I set the opening time at 12:00 AM, and waited, well... forever. (this convention is completely idiotic, by the way)

[itsbird]

I thought the same thing, but i worked out I was setting it a day ahead and was not counting the starting day as day 1.

Best way to do it is to head straight there, set it for 10 am and then go back later.

[Caeliat]

Make sure your local time is in English, it's currently a known issue that if your local time reads something other than English the safe may not open.

[Silvan]

No, these tips do not work at all. I set the correct time. Tried suggesting that Day 1 is both Nov 7 and Nov 8 - no luck. Tried setting timer for 2 hours later, 4 hours later, 2 days later - no luck. It's always closed.

[Silvan]

Originally posted by Caeliat:

Make sure your local time is in English, it's currently a known issue that if your local time reads something other than English the safe may not open.

Sorry, what does it mean? Time doesn't have language afaik

[Caeliat]

Originally posted by Silvan:

Originally posted by Caeliat:

Make sure your local time is in English, it's currently a known issue that if your local time reads something other than English the safe may not open.

Sorry, what does it mean? Time doesn't have language afaik

There is a setting for time and date language in Windows, and it affects what the game reads the local date as. It's silly, since the entire game is in English, but it is what it is. If your Windows language is, say, using a Cyrillic alphabet, November isn't "Nov".

You can check if this is affecting you by looking for places in the house where the present day is written out, like the Drafting Studio. If the date doesn't show Nov/Dec/Jan/etc, you need to switch your computer's local date/time to English to solve the safe.

Looking at your Steam profile, I suspect this is your problem.

[Helen - Raw Fury]

Hi there, this is a known issue and the team are working on a fix for this for an upcoming patch. As soon as we have more news about this I will let everyone know 🙂

[Silvan]

Originally posted by Caeliat:

Originally posted by Silvan:

Sorry, what does it mean? Time doesn't have language afaik

There is a setting for time and date language in Windows, and it affects what the game reads the local date as. It's silly, since the entire game is in English, but it is what it is. If your Windows language is, say, using a Cyrillic alphabet, November isn't "Nov".

You can check if this is affecting you by looking for places in the house where the present day is written out, like the Drafting Studio. If the date doesn't show Nov/Dec/Jan/etc, you need to switch your computer's local date/time to English to solve the safe.

Looking at your Steam profile, I suspect this is your problem.

Thank you, I'll try that!

[Bullhawk]

Wait what? It's supposed to be in game date/time, not real life time and date. Or did I misread what yall was typing?

[Swede]

Originally posted by Bullhawk:

Wait what? It's supposed to be in game date/time, not real life time and date. Or did I misread what yall was typing?

It's supposed to be the in-game date and time.

Day 1 happens on the 7'th of november, so the correct date is november of (dayCount + 6), unless you have gone many many days.

You can find rooms that tell you today's date, for example the room that lets you permanently add new tiles also has a calendar on the table that tells you the current in-game date.

[Caeliat]

Originally posted by Bullhawk:

Wait what? It's supposed to be in game date/time, not real life time and date. Or did I misread what yall was typing?

It shouldn't be an issue anymore, they patched it, but for clarity: it was locales.

It's not reading your local time/date, it's reading your local time/date language. So you tell the game to open, say, November 17. But your computer does not have "Nov", because your Windows language is Russian, so you have "ноя". Which does not equal Nov, so the shelter safe stays closed.

Something similar happens with Spanish and Portuguese. "Nov" stays the same, but if you try to open it toward the end of the first month, you're entering "Dic"/"Dez" territory instead of "Dec" and the safe stays shut.

[Silvan]

Originally posted by Caeliat:

Originally posted by Silvan:

Sorry, what does it mean? Time doesn't have language afaik

There is a setting for time and date language in Windows, and it affects what the game reads the local date as. It's silly, since the entire game is in English, but it is what it is. If your Windows language is, say, using a Cyrillic alphabet, November isn't "Nov".

You can check if this is affecting you by looking for places in the house where the present day is written out, like the Drafting Studio. If the date doesn't show Nov/Dec/Jan/etc, you need to switch your computer's local date/time to English to solve the safe.

Looking at your Steam profile, I suspect this is your problem.

Forgot to return back. That was the problem, indeed. Other people may not experience the problem anymore with this new patch, but I appreciate your help. Here's a Steam reward for this solution.

[Understar]

I didn't set the time until late into Nov 12. Clock said 12:30 and I heard crickets, so I assumed I need to set to at least 2am. However the safe didn't open. Since I let it get so late into the am, does that mean I need to set it to Nov 13? This is quite confusing