ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

View Stats:
Phoenix Oct 31, 2021 @ 4:10am
Is there the opposite of "SetTimeOfDay"?
Running a small server for a friend and myself, many times I would like to see the time of day as well as the day of the server without having to fully log in first. Looking for console commands I could potentially use, the only one I found was " SetTimeOfDay [ark.fandom.com]". However, I do not want to set/control the day, but rather get the current information.

I have downloaded the source for a Linux "rcon" utility someone wrote and I compiled it using gcc. This tool works fine and I can issue console commands from the Linux command line and get the output I generally expect.

However, looking through all available commands (either from the long list where I found above's command or using "ShowMyAdminManager"), I seem not to find a command, which would include this information.

When listing servers to log in to, you also get the day the server is on, which in turn lets me believe that the game as such supports providing such information. I even found an API [arkserverapi.com], which advertises:
"ArkApi is a plugin which allows you to create your own server-side plugins for ARK using C++ language."

Though not being a programmer (C/C++ is out of my league to create code for) and it being for Microsoft Windows only, it would not be an option for me.

So, just in the event that I dismissed or simply missed something:
Is there a "SetTimeOfDay" equivalent (e.g. "GetTimeOfDay") to obtain the current time of the day from the active ARK (or even [full] status of the server containing this information)?
Originally posted by 𝓝𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓲:
Originally posted by 𝖘𝖊𝖗𝖌𝖎𝖃𝖝:
you have 2 ways to check what day it is

1 open your inventory (in middle you will find "Day")
2 press "H" then left corner upside you will see all important infos.

i hope i get you right sry for my englisch.
greetings

lmao did you even both to read the post before answering?
"Running a small server for a friend and myself, many times I would like to see the time of day as well as the day of the server without having to fully log in first. "

AFAIK it's impossible to see the date/time from RCON. I looked through ASM and could not find anything there either. I also looked through the applicable commands and none returned the date/time.

The only way to check without spawning in is to view the server in Ark's menus. Though that only shows the day #
< >
Showing 1-3 of 3 comments
sergiXx Oct 31, 2021 @ 5:26am 
you have 2 ways to check what day it is

1 open your inventory (in middle you will find "Day")
2 press "H" then left corner upside you will see all important infos.

i hope i get you right sry for my englisch.
greetings
The author of this thread has indicated that this post answers the original topic.
Originally posted by 𝖘𝖊𝖗𝖌𝖎𝖃𝖝:
you have 2 ways to check what day it is

1 open your inventory (in middle you will find "Day")
2 press "H" then left corner upside you will see all important infos.

i hope i get you right sry for my englisch.
greetings

lmao did you even both to read the post before answering?
"Running a small server for a friend and myself, many times I would like to see the time of day as well as the day of the server without having to fully log in first. "

AFAIK it's impossible to see the date/time from RCON. I looked through ASM and could not find anything there either. I also looked through the applicable commands and none returned the date/time.

The only way to check without spawning in is to view the server in Ark's menus. Though that only shows the day #
Phoenix Nov 7, 2021 @ 7:14am 
Originally posted by 𝓝𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓲:
AFAIK it's impossible to see the date/time from RCON. I looked through ASM and could not find anything there either. I also looked through the applicable commands and none returned the date/time.

The only way to check without spawning in is to view the server in Ark's menus. Though that only shows the day #

Thanks for the confirmation! At least I can take comfort in not having overlooked anything.
< >
Showing 1-3 of 3 comments
Per page: 1530 50

Date Posted: Oct 31, 2021 @ 4:10am
Posts: 3