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Sky and weather gates need retail and acdream looking at the SAME Dereth hour and the SAME authored day group; until now the only lever was acdream's ACDREAM_WORLD_TIME/ACDREAM_DAY_GROUP pins, which retail cannot follow, so the user could never judge night-sky differences (aurora, dome edge) side by side. @settime <hour|fraction> [Sunny|Rainy|Clear|Cloudy|<index>] jumps ACE's Timers.PortalYearTicks FORWARD to the next matching instant. Every TimeSync header carries that value, so both clients re-sync within seconds. Forward-only because DelayActions compare against the same clock (a backward jump would stall them). The calendar and day-group roll duplicate acdream's retail ports (DerethCalendar shift 3600, SkyDayGroupSelector LCG from SkyDesc::CalcPresentDayGroup @0x00500E10) and the 20-entry name table was dumped from the installed Region DAT. Install: copy SetTime.dll + Meta.json to C:\ACE\Mods\SetTime and run @mod find (or restart ACE). Dev servers only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# SetTime — ACE mod for side-by-side sky/weather comparisons
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`@settime <hour|fraction> [Sunny|Rainy|Clear|Cloudy|<dayGroupIndex>]`
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Jumps the server's Dereth clock **forward** (never back) so retail and
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acdream — both driven by ACE's TimeSync — show the same hour and the same
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authored day group:
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- `@settime 3` → the next 3 o'clock (day fraction 0.125);
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- `@settime 0.125 Rainy` → 3 o'clock on the next day whose roll is a Rainy group;
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- `@settime 12 16` → noon on the next day that rolls day group 16.
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Dev servers only: a forward jump fires every pending `DelayAction` early.
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The command needs `AccessLevel.Admin`.
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## Build and install
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```powershell
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dotnet build tools/ace-mods/SetTime -c Release
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New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force C:\ACE\Mods\SetTime | Out-Null
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Copy-Item tools/ace-mods/SetTime/bin/Release/net10.0/SetTime.dll, tools/ace-mods/SetTime/Meta.json C:\ACE\Mods\SetTime\
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```
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Then restart ACE (the mod loader also hot-reloads when `HotReload` is true).
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`AceServerDir` (default `C:\ACE\Server`) can be overridden with
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`-p:AceServerDir=...` if the server lives elsewhere.
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The calendar and day-group roll are the same retail ports acdream uses
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(`DerethDateTime`, `SkyDayGroupSelector`; retail
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`SkyDesc::CalcPresentDayGroup @0x00500E10`), so the group the command
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predicts is the group both clients will render.
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