Clock tower puzzle

[Federick]

Short story shorter, changing my PC's hour does NOT move the clock hands by an inch. How can I make them move (other than actually waiting, which sucks)?

[Miraglyth]

It depends on the clock hand.

The fast (red? I forget) one should cycle every minute and it's easiest to just wait that one out.

The next-fastest (blue?) rotates fully every hour, so advancing the hour and changing nothing else won't make it move at all. Instead change the minutes.

The green one moves every day, so you'll need to advance a few hours for that to get to the top. For example, if it's at the bottom, move the clock forward 12 hours.

The grey one takes longer. Some people and guides say 2 days. Others who've measured it say it's more like a week. You'll probably need to change the clock a few times until it's in the right place.

[Federick]

My problem was that changing my computer's time didn't affect the clock in the game, but now I solved the problem anyway.

[Appetite4Deduction]

Probably pointless to mention it, but here goes: changing the computer's TIME ZONE will not change the clock in the game. I believe it reads UTC time, which means you need to change the time itself, not the time zone.

[Crusha]

This is a stupid puzzle. Changing system time too much back and forth can actually mess with some programs. For example when a program sets some last-updated timestamp at a point in the actual future and then does not check for any further updates until that point in time has been reached for real after you reverted back to regular time.

[MreeBiPolar]

Originally posted by kittehoverlord:

Originally posted by Crusha:

This is a stupid puzzle.

I think you mean: ``That is a harmful solution to the puzzle.''
The puzzle is to wait in game for the clock hands to align at the 12 o'clock position. How you do that is up to you.

I think he meant exactly what he said. A puzzle requiring you to run the game and be in a specific place in it at at a specific time of the WEEK /is/ assininely stupid. Not to mention that it could be conflicting with a thing called "real life". Since it's tied to UTC time, not local time, it can as well happen to be in the middle of your workday, or at a time like 5AM. Not everyone can play games 24/7.

And the "change time" solution might be not only harmful, but also impossible if the player has no admin control over the PC.

[LilacDogoo]

Yup. Never coming back to this puzzle.. 🙄

[Exilyth]

Yeah, may be the worst puzzle in the game: The solution is easily found - the rest is waiting (or messing with the system time).

edit: Last 3 cubes I need are on the clock tower.
edit2: Now I still need one from the clock tower.

[vapier]

If you use Linux, you can use the faketime[github.com] program to control the time for this one program and quickly increment time however you want.

For example, on Debian/Ubuntu (64-bit):

$ sudo apt-get install -y faketime
$ cd ~/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/FEZ
$ echo +0 > ~/.faketimerc
$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/faketime/libfaketimeMT.so.1 ./FEZ

Now just keep writing larger values to ~/.faketimerc, then switch back to FEZ and jump a few times until the updated clock takes effect. You can usually notice after ~5 jumps as the screen will stutter and the clock hands will jump forward.

$ echo +1m > ~/.faketimerc
$ echo +10m > ~/.faketimerc
$ echo +1h > ~/.faketimerc
$ echo +5h > ~/.faketimerc

Rewinding the time seems to crash the game, so don't do that ;).