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Topic Title: Why do I get Logged out and have to Log In again? (Simple Topic)

Topic starter: Professor

Topic started: 10:16:25 17th Sep 2006

Posts: 9 Last post: 13:09:37 5th Oct 2006 by Flip Side Fury

Professor

Posted: 10:16:25 17th Sep 2006

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There are two primary reasons:

1. At midnight server time (which is USA Arizona time), everyone is automatically logged out for a minute or so while cron jobs at midnight are running.

2. When Systems Administrator or Professor work on the system, sometimes the game cache needs to be flushed and all players are logged out. If this happens a few times within 15 minutes, it means that we are intensively working on something (which hopefully will make the game better or fix some bug), and to test the code, game cached files have to be flushed and everyone has to log in again.

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Coce

Posted: 13:39:41 17th Sep 2006

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at least i know when i get logged out it for a good reason (or at least i will think that so when i am doing something important i wont get mad about it lol )

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mythics

Posted: 15:24:32 17th Sep 2006

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i already knew about the midnight thing. and it is pacific time zone for the record

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Professor

Posted: 15:31:31 17th Sep 2006

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actually, it is Arizona time. Arizona does not have DayLightSavingsTime, so part of the year, it is the same as Pacific time, and part of the year, it is the same as Mountain Time in the USA.

Since DayLightSavingsTime is rather an annoyance for servers, the server stays on Arizona time all year round, so it does not have to be reset to match time changes twice a year.

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mythics

Posted: 20:59:48 17th Sep 2006

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annoynace for me too. daylight savings time that is

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Reaper Of Souls2

Posted: 23:54:38 23rd Sep 2006

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wow.. arizona dont have daylight savings time? since when?

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