Linux Does 7D2D store in-game time in its logs?

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toddle_driver

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Hey there,

I've been working on a private bot that posts the last-known in-game time (e.g. Day 182, 15:22) found from a log into a Discord channel when prompted. However, when developing it I couldn't determine if time was logged linearly within the output logs. I thought of it was one of the two values, and to help provide context I'll sample this line from the log:

2025-07-04T08:15:09 259061.411 INF Time: 4316.57m FPS: 20.01 Heap: 1888.3MB Max: 3017.1MB Chunks: 856 CGO: 60 Ply: 2 Zom: 1 Ent: 6 (306) Items: 1 CO: 7 RSS: 4341.3MB
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The log time (2025-07-04) isn't what I'm looking for, so I'll look past that. I thought that maybe either INF or Time: would be the value I'm looking for as they both tick ever-so-slightly upwards with each write (though Time: only shows up every so often. INF shows up every time.). INF being 259061.411 INF and Time: being Time: 4316.57m. However, after several calibrations, both INF and Time: drift away from the in-game time, leaving it inaccurate.

Are there any log values I can use to measure what the day and time is within the game? Or is it perhaps INF and/or Time: being the value I'm looking for and am just converting incorrectly?

Thanks in advance!
 
Knoxvilles_joker said:
Have you checked any of the other files in the save folder so see if you can find any useful tidbits?
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Thanks for the idea! I went to go look and unfortunately I couldn't find any references to TIME or CLOCK that resembled what I was looking for, so I don't think anything in the Saves folder will be of use to this project. I'm happy to be wrong, though.
 
If you have telnet enabled, a telnet connection will return the current state of the server as text with key+value pairs, including this information:

CurrentServerTime:62440;
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This is the server's time in "ticks" -- I use 1,000 ticks per game hour.
 
ThePewter said:
If you have telnet enabled, a telnet connection will return the current state of the server as text with key+value pairs, including this information:

CurrentServerTime:62440;

This is the server's time in "ticks" -- I use 1,000 ticks per game hour.
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This is what I was looking for! I didn't think to use telnet to access console commands. That made me think of the gettime command which is returning it in DAY HH:MM. After reviewing the command list I couldn't find a way to get it in ticks. I can work gettime into my script since it's better than what I've got, which is calibrating server time versus real life time and advancing based on real-life clock.

Thank you!
 
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