What timezone is used for multiplayer game turns?

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What timezone is used for multiplayer game turns?

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On my computer , it appears that the times in game for multilpayer turns are shown as UTC -7:00:00 or the equivalent of Pacific Daylight Time (but no TZ info is shown). I'm actually located (and computer time zone is set to ) UTC -4:00 or Eastern Daylight Time. The 3 hour discrepancy is some what confusing and generally doesn't make sense.

As far as I can tell, there isn't any timezone setting in game, so as a user and software engineer that the game should use the OS system time zone. Alternatively using UTC or at least indicating a UTC offset would be an improvement.

Chris

p.s. Windows out of the box assumes Pacific Time since that is where Microsoft is headquartered but that seem like a reason why the game should use it ;-).
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I have always assumed it is server time.
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Has this ever been definitively answered?
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88mmshock wrote: Sat Dec 20, 2025 10:41 pm Has this ever been definitively answered?
Not to my knowledge
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It is indeed server time!

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