[QUESTION] Night and Day system

[marcelo_20xx]

I want to know if it is posible to change the time where the game enters in night mode. Currently is set at 9:00 pm but I want to change it to 6:00 pm. Same with dawn change it to 8:00 am. Thanks!

[gravestalker]

I am pretty sure this is client side so I think you cant change it. You could change the timezones so that when its 6:00 pm your time its 8 pm server time

[marcelo_20xx]

Damn...I was thinking that too. But what If I edit the files with WinMPQ and then repack the archive, will it work?

[CoolManBob]

That would work theoretically, given two things, one: you know where the variables are located that set the time when dawn and time of night, and two: these values are not hardcoded in the actual executable and if that is true as it most likely is you won't be able to change them

[marcelo_20xx]

Yes I already know where the variables are but I have the feeling that is hardcoded

GAMETIME_DAWN = ( 5 * 60) + 30;		-- 5:30 AM
GAMETIME_DUSK = (21 * 60) +  0;		-- 9:00 PM

function GameTimeFrame_Update()
	local hour, minute = GetGameTime();
	local time = (hour * 60) + minute;
	if(time ~= this.timeOfDay) then
		this.timeOfDay = time;
		local minx = 0;
		local maxx = 50/128;
		local miny = 0;
		local maxy = 50/64;
		if(time < GAMETIME_DAWN or time >= GAMETIME_DUSK) then
			minx = minx + 0.5;
			maxx = maxx + 0.5;
		end
		GameTimeTexture:SetTexCoord(minx, maxx, miny, maxy);

		if(GameTooltip:IsOwned(this)) then
			GameTimeFrame_UpdateTooltip(hour, minute);
		end
	end
end

function GameTimeFrame_UpdateTooltip(hours, minutes)
	if(TwentyFourHourTime) then
		GameTooltip:SetText(format(TEXT(TIME_TWENTYFOURHOURS), hours, minutes));
	else
		local pm = 0;
		if(hours >= 12) then
			pm = 1;
		end
		if(hours > 12) then
			hours = hours - 12;
		end
		if(hours == 0) then
			hours = 12;
		end
		if(pm == 0) then
			GameTooltip:SetText(format(TEXT(TIME_TWELVEHOURAM), hours, minutes));
		else
			GameTooltip:SetText(format(TEXT(TIME_TWELVEHOURPM), hours, minutes));
		end
	end
end

function GameTime_GetTime()
	local hour, minute = GetGameTime();

	if(TwentyFourHourTime) then
		return format(TEXT(TIME_TWENTYFOURHOURS), hour, minute);
	else
		local pm = 0;
		if(hour >= 12) then
			pm = 1;
		end
		if(hour > 12) then
			hour = hour - 12;
		end
		if(hour == 0) then
			hour = 12;
		end
		if(pm == 0) then
			return format(TEXT(TIME_TWELVEHOURAM), hour, minute);
		else
			return format(TEXT(TIME_TWELVEHOURPM), hour, minute);
		end
	end
end

Extracted from \Interface\FrameXML of locale-enUS.mpq