How to change the server runtime?

[79cyrus]

it says 10 days playing but we almost made 0 progress and i want to change the days to day 2 or something

[79cyrus]

bump

[dorianmode]

You can use the sleep function to speed up time.

[79cyrus]

iam running a dedicated server and i want to change the time from day 10 to day 2, so how sleep is going to work ? are u sleeping and waking up yesterday? :D

[dorianmode]

Sorry - I misunderstood what you meant.

You cannot revert the server time backwards without restarting or restoring a backup and losing progress.

Are you worried about the time until the meteor hits, or just the server clock?

[79cyrus]

I saw it on other servers, some guys have almost finished towns and server day was set to 2, no i just lost so many people playing on the server and now its day 10 and nobody joins a 10 days old server

[dorianmode]

You can set up towns in two days either through hard work or through admin commands or other techniques.

There still isn't any way to reset the server clock, though.

[SLG-Dennis]

Dorianmode is correct.

[79cyrus]

Thats sad because then the server is RIP

[Shadou]

I see this post is a bit older. Is there a way now? Had the same problem today ^^

[SLG-Dennis]

There is no official way to do that and public servers that would do it would be in violation of our ToS which can lead to potential consequences like delisting of the server on the server browser.

Please keep in mind that our server list prioritizes display of newer servers and that a majority of players expect from a day 0 server a fresh starting experience. Any manipulation of properties to gain advantages for the server ranking to the disadvantage of our players on the server browser are not acceptable.

For concept servers, there is the CivicImportExportMod available that allows to very quickly set up a starting government, which is fully fine, given we want to give that option in the future as a native game feature.