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MISC: Remove or change popup shown when system clock moved backward #1739

Closed catloversg closed 3 weeks ago

catloversg commented 3 weeks ago

When we detect that the system clock moved backward, we will show a popup warning the player. After this change, we have received some reports from players asking what it means. In the dev branch, the threshold was changed to 5 minutes to make it less sensitive to NTP. When I look at this change again, I wonder if it's a useful feature or just a new source of confusion for players.

IMO, this warning popup does not help the player at all. It tells something that many players do not comprehend. Even if they understand what happened, there are not many things that they (or we) can do. Those reports just become unsolvable problems. It's very likely that it's just a problem with their machines, but it's hard to tell them, "That's your problem, not ours.".

Based on what I saw on Discord after I posted this suggestion:

I'll change it to a toast if the maintainer wants.

Closes #1738.

d0sboots commented 3 weeks ago

Agreed. This is a case where ignorance is bliss.