As much as it is fun to shit on AGS, these patches are coming from Smilegate.
They’ve never had to deal with DST before for LA, so I’m not really surprised it’s having issues.
yes because Smilegate themselves doesnt have to deal with DST as their country doesnt use it, so it wouldnt be programmed into it. where im unsure in the regards of the ru server, but i dont think russia uses dst either.
after a quick google russia doesnt use DST so that also would prevent coding of DST into the game.
None of the prior regions use DST, so KR, RU, and JP are all non-dst countries.
And not every country that currently has LA uses DST either, DST is a mess thank god we’re eventually getting rid of it.
I mean it shouldn’t be rocket science to fix its a 1 hour offset.
they did attempt to +1 the time of the servers, but dst setting on the individual pcs is still throwing it +1 ontop of that.
It’s not that simple, it has to be a fix that works for everyone, not even every state in the US follows DST (Arizona and Hawaii don’t), much less other countries.
It wasn’t initially in the game because it wasn’t needed, so they’re trying to shoehorn it in.
It is that simple when you go off server time like they do. They aren’t using my time locally.
I mean, the events themselves were running fine, it was just the timers that were borked.
Now everything is screwy.
So obviously, no, not as simple as you want to make it appear, nothing in programming ever is as simple as one would want it to be 
i personally dont use my local time zone for reasons im not going to discuss, as a default my PC is hard locked to UTC, so i dont see these issues.
some day the whole world will finally stop using DST and we won’t have these issues ever again.
Utah is finally stopping this year so this roll forward is the last one hopefully forever. That’s what the funny thing is…it didn’t happen on the roll back it happened on the spring ahead which should be normal time anyway lol
Most of the 70 the use DST are in NA or EU. which is a big portion of Global Lost Ark.
unless the Sunshine Protection act passes, they cant stay on Daylight time(Spring forward) as its against Federal Law which Prohibits this. Staying on Winter(Standard Time) is fine though.
Well, with any luck the US won’t be part of that after a year and half. Can’t wait.
It’s weird because the clock actually detects when you have it set to DLS and adjusts. If they could just make it NOT adjust to DLS at all that would be fine as well.
And @Deathsfortune all the least available content are some of the hardest content to complete and they are NOT available all day. i.e. Lagoon, Lush Reed, Volare, Snowpang, Medeia are all only available 5-6 times per day on the days that they are available. So just looking one hour ahead does NOT guarentee that the event will be available
Before the patch, the game server was one hour behind (UTC -5) where our client clocks were correct (UTC -4). Now the game server is correct (UTC -4) but for some reason they rolled our client clocks ahead another hour (UTC -3), which is not a thing in the US. Is there anyway we can manually adjust the in-game clock without screwing up our computers time?
not an in game solution, but at least someone has made https://www.lostarktimer.app and it appears to be accurate so far
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that server clock is wrong though for NA-East, as its showing a hour ahead of actual EDT(UTC-4) its showing UTC-3 time
a work around if you want is disable dst and set your PC timezone to Atlantic time(UTC-4)