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README.md

SetTime — ACE mod for side-by-side sky/weather comparisons

Jumps the server's Dereth clock forward (never back) so retail and acdream — both driven by ACE's TimeSync — show the same hour and the same authored day group:

@settime 3 → the next 3 o'clock (day fraction 0.125);
@settime 0.125 Rainy → 3 o'clock on the next day whose roll is a Rainy group;
@settime 12 16 → noon on the next day that rolls day group 16.

Dev servers only: a forward jump fires every pending DelayAction early. The command needs AccessLevel.Admin.

Build and install

dotnet build tools/ace-mods/SetTime -c Release
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force C:\ACE\Mods\SetTime | Out-Null
Copy-Item tools/ace-mods/SetTime/bin/Release/net10.0/SetTime.dll, tools/ace-mods/SetTime/Meta.json C:\ACE\Mods\SetTime\

Then either restart ACE or, from an Admin character, run @mod find — ACE rescans ModsDirectory and loads the new mod without a restart (@mod list shows its status). AceServerDir (default C:\ACE\Server) can be overridden with -p:AceServerDir=... if the server lives elsewhere.

The calendar and day-group roll are the same retail ports acdream uses (DerethDateTime, SkyDayGroupSelector; retail SkyDesc::CalcPresentDayGroup @0x00500E10), so the group the command predicts is the group both clients will render.