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Day/Night Cycle Planner

Day/Night Calculator

Configure your DayZ server's day/night cycle with simple hour/minute inputs

Server Configuration

Day Duration (recommended: 1-6 hours)

hours

How long one game day (12 hours) lasts in real time

Night Duration (recommended: 10-60 minutes)

minutes

How long one game night (12 hours) lasts in real time

Current Server Time

Current in-game time on your server

Presets

Import Nitrado Settings

Upload your Nitrado settings JSON file to automatically load your current server configuration

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Day Duration

0h 0m

Real-world time

Night Duration

0h 0m

Real-world time

Full Day Cycle

0h 0m

Real-world time

Cycles Per Day

In 24 real hours

Time Preview

00:00

Day

00:00 (Midnight) 06:00 (Dawn) 12:00 (Noon) 18:00 (Dusk) 24:00 (Midnight)

Server Time Multiplier

1.0

Set this value in Nitrado panel

Server Time Multiplier (Night)

1.0

Set this value in Nitrado panel

// Copy this configuration to your serverDZ.cfg file
  serverTimeAcceleration=12;  // Time multiplier
  serverNightTimeAcceleration=1;  // Night time multiplier