Bukkit

RealTimeRotation

This plugin sets the time of all worlds, to emulate the real sun including sunset and sunrise. Also the duration of the day can be modified.

Important Notice

To avoid problems with your setup of this plugin please read the Important-Notice-page.

Features

Basically what it does is using the configuration to change the day to a more realistic cycle.

To describe it in an easy way, lets imagine the server is set to a 24 hours day. In your configuration it is told, that the location is Berlin, Germany and its the 10th of June 2013. The sun on your server will rise at 04:46:47 AM and sunset will be at 9:11:37 PM. As you can imagine, the sun in MineCraft will then rise, when the sun is also rising in reality.

FYI: the normal days duration in MineCraft is 20 minutes with 10 minutes of day-light and 10 minutes night. Not quiet but its close enough.

Side-effects / known issues

As the server then uses the real time to calculate its own, you will be faced with following effects:

• manipulating the time with "/time set n" won't work anymore
• skipping the night by sleeping won't work either

Reporting bugs and artifacts

I really would appreciate if you could report all bugs and artifacts you may encounter.

For example:

• The sun at dawn (in pre-alpha) used to skip a few seconds (not to say hours)
• When going to sleep the night will not pass

So,... if you encounter something like this: you can report it right here

Future changes

• Implementing a command to display the time of the current world/server
• Re-enabling the ability to manipulate time by going to sleep or using "/time set n"

Commands / Permissions

There are no commands or permissions to care about.

Configuration

All information about the configuration can be found here.

Additional information

This plugin sends request to a third-party-server providing the sunset and sunrise of a location and get the lunar-state. Since 0.1.36 you can use a static value to emulate sunset and sunrise. This will result in the plugin not requesting anything from outside.

This requests will not send any informations about your server or the players on it! It will only use the settings provided in the configuration-file of this plugin!

Java-Versions

• 0.1.36 b and above: Java 6
• below 0.1.36 b: Java 7

Change-Log

0.3.0 b

• updated plugin to work with 1.9 again (previous versions work with 1.8)
• significant performance-improvements
• multi-world-support. the time can be configured for every world

0.2.33 r

• fixed an offset of 20 minutes between sunrise in game and sunrise in reality
• implemented some performance-improvements
• ticks to calculate the time at is now configurable
• fixed lunar-index to display it the right way

0.2.23 b

• Fixed time-offset that may corrupt sunset- and sunrise-animation so it would be on wrong times
• Changed configuration to adjust the offset of users (overcome the timezone of the server)

0.1.36 b

• added availability to use static values for sunrise and sunset
• converted project to Java 6
• configuration updated !!

0.1.12 b

• moon depends on the real moon (lunar cycles are now available!)

Contact

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