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Not_Nathan_Drake

Penalties for changing the date and time settings - What I discovered so far

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Out of curiosity, I decided to diddle about with the date and time settings as I read they change the spawns due to it changing the time of day, and indeed it does. However, people have been talking about possible penalties for this, but haven't actually documented any, so here is what I found when you change the time and date, and then go back to internet synced time:

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  • Poké Jobs that are currently active will reset their timer to highest amount
  • Loto ID will be unavailable until the next full day
  • Battle cafes will not be available till next day
  • Daily stone spawns will be missing until next day

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Haven't seen anything else so far though.

Posted Nov 22, 2019, 10:53 AM UTC · edited

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jvincentsong•

Resetti appears eventually.

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skepticalmonique•

Hold it right there, punk! What did you do? Huh? Tell me what you did!

What am I talkin' about? Huh? Don't you play dumb with me! Don't you DARE!

Before you turn the power off, SAVE! You gotta SAVE! I KNOW you knew that!

Don't even lie to me! When you power down without following procedure...

Know what happens? I get lights and sirens playin' an electric mambo at HQ!

KINDA HARD TO MISS!

Gotta relax. Deep breath. Haaaaaah... I can see now, you don't listen too well...

Well, clean out your ears, u/jvincentsong. Life's SERIOUS! Calm... Haah... Happy mole...

You hear me? SERIOUS! Haaah... Cool, dark tunnel... Release the anger...

You're gonna gimme health problems, punk. Don't be such a twerp... Haaaaaah...

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alb3rth0fmannPoke Kid (M)•

you should conduct more trials after you've turned on airplane mode.

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I swear I haven't seen (or at least noticed) any adverse effects by first turning on airplane mode, then fiddling with the time/date, just be sure to set back to automatic before you turn off airplane mode again.

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would be curious to know if you find any differences in your results!

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cattybob•

Or even just being offline. I've only used the exploit twice but neither time did I notice any adverse effects, was still able to do the lotto after midnight, etc.

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thepurpleskittle•

It also doesn’t work for trying to get the next day’s item from the guy in Stow-on-Side.

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kiravir•

That's a bummer :(

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thepurpleskittle•

Right :( I waited days for a Chipped Pot

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iConCon19•

It does if you reset the time while searching for friends in a max raid and then cancelling the raid

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Lombey15•

EASY FIX, set date/time to 24 hours behind the actual date/time, and then sync the clock.

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Lombey15•

checked stow on side bargain and battle cafes and was able to use them again. || find active den/use wishing piece | invite others (offline) | set time 24 hours behind w/e time is where you are | open game & stop inviting others | invite others again | sync the clock in settings, open game back up, voilà

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djjomon•

Thank you both for this

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BrambleClaw39•

Have you gotten a chance to try it out and see if that really fixes it? I'm hoping it works for real ;;

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djjomon•

I've done it a few times now. Searching for other players, syncing time, then stopping searching works. It seems to reset the day altogether. So you then get another chance to get berries, battle Morimoto, etc.

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chandra-leah•

Thank you!! My game was stuck for 2 days, none of my dens were resetting or berry trees, I was starting to get so frustrated lol.

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BluUmbreon•

You beast thanks... My sis has been playing a bunch of animal crossing and messed with the time whuch screwed up pokemon but thankfully I found this godlike comment. Thanks :)

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biggerdickchad•

woooo it's been a few months but wanted to let you know this just saved me, was using the date/time trick to change the weather and finish my dex and thought I had totally screwed myself. nothing was resetting!

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awildemilyappeared•

THANK YOU, I was getting so frustrated!!

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Eldriken•

You are a lifesaver! THANK YOU.

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RiceManJr•

Didn't work for me I'm trying to grind the battle cafe stills says i already did it

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dWARUDO•

Damn I wish I knew this earlier today because I was almost done with my poke jobs..

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Xahtrog•

Discovered this day 1. Decided to not let others know so the hilarity could ensue ^_^

However, you CAN change the date and time to hunt for specific pokemon who need certain weather conditions

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Not_Nathan_DrakeOP•

Yep, and it changes live too, so if you Home key > System > Set Date ahead a month then hit the home key and re-enter the game, the weather changes around you immediately and all the Pokémon respawn. A Gardevoir despawned and a Milotic replaced it with this method.

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Xahtrog•

Correct :) but make sure auto set date/time is off lol

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EinsZweiStein•

I am pretty sure that the respawn time of the strong spawns also gets extended

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Blujay12•

Is there any negative effects to resetting the day back to actual time?

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LoserOtakuNerd•

I think this also might screw up the Pokédex suggestions. Ever since I started messing with the Switch’s clock, the Pokédex suggestions don’t appear. Anyways, thanks for the reset information. I skipped ahead a month and was afraid I’d have to wait to December 24th to get the Loto and Battle Café again x_x

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AlphaCutieBeta•

I can say for sure that the rare spawns in the wild area wont reset either once you done them

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ZachPlum•

Oh thank god, I didn’t get to do Loto-ID and I was so afraid that I wouldn’t be able to do it until the day I had changed back from

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letoucour•

Do you think that it changes the chances to get a shiny pokemon ?

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Not_Nathan_DrakeOP•

Not in any way, shape or form

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ObliviousCyclone•

Does it also mess with events?

For example, there's a Gigantamax Snorlax event that ends early January, if you mess the the date and time, will it lock you out of the events!?

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D4Lon-a-disc•

Im going to say no. I have been just manipulating the date foward 1 day every time i want to reset a raid for a different pokemon.

My date is currently in mid july 2020, and i just got 2 gigantamax snorlax raids in a row.

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ObliviousCyclone•

Oh, thanks then!

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MrMii-Already-Reddit•

I read that with the Jan 2020 update following the direct, exploiting time skip glitches (such as the comp battle method) will result in punishments such as Mystery Gift being disabled. However, I heard that you could still do the den reset method while on local communication, safely, without worry. Can anyone confirm this?

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Human-Sexuality•

Daily resturaunt battles get delayed (how you get the items for alchreamy)

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chopinlargo•

These also happen when transferring save data from one Switch to another (like a Switch Lite), which is rather frustrating!

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gettin-the-succ•

Watt Trader items don’t change once you start changing the date either.

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iamzb•

So max raids are unaffected?

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AlphaCutieBeta•

nop, if you mess up with it the daily den reset wont happen either, basically anything that resets daily is affected when manipulating time

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iamzb•

Odd, I just cleared out all raids and new ones spawned including a purple beam one. Maybe if were not connected to the net via ycomm we might be alright to change the time? Idk maybe I'm misunderstanding something. For reference, I was doing the date change about 12-14 hours ago (date was still Nov 23)

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AlphaCutieBeta•

daily den reset wont happen. that what you are referring to has nothing to do with a daily reset. Raids reset on different ways

  1. you have x amount of raids in the wild area - you clear everyone and new ones respawn, in each cycle one with a purple beam

  2. daily reset: just like id lottery, barista fighting for sweets, etc. raids reset on a 24h basis (dont know exact time if it is on a local or global time)

  3. you have say 3 raids in your wild zone if you join raids of friends or other people after 3 raids the raids on your map will reset

While 1 and 3 have nothing to do on which date or at which hour you are playing, if you manipualte time and go back to the original time the you wont find daily raid resets

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Not_Nathan_DrakeOP•

The ones in the stone circle in the wild zone to the left of lake of rage. All the Evo stones can be found there and for me they have been respawning every 1-2 days

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PaintSquid•

Depends on your view on spoilers? :P

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PaintSquid•

There's a place in the wild area, one of the lack islands you can get to when your bicycle gets and upgrade. Evolutionary stones will spawn there about every day. Top left side in the wild area if I remember right.

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Shadow0613•

my battle cafe and loto id have been like this for a while

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