There are two primary reasons:

1. At midnight server time (which is USA Arizona time), everyone is automatically logged out for a minute or so while cron jobs at midnight are running.

2. When Systems Administrator or Professor work on the system, sometimes the game cache needs to be flushed and all players are logged out. If this happens a few times within 15 minutes, it means that we are intensively working on something (which hopefully will make the game better or fix some bug), and to test the code, game cached files have to be flushed and everyone has to log in again.

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at least i know when i get logged out it for a good reason (or at least i will think that so when i am doing something important i wont get mad about it lol )

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i already knew about the midnight thing. and it is pacific time zone for the record

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Yah, SL is fun.

actually, it is Arizona time. Arizona does not have DayLightSavingsTime, so part of the year, it is the same as Pacific time, and part of the year, it is the same as Mountain Time in the USA.

Since DayLightSavingsTime is rather an annoyance for servers, the server stays on Arizona time all year round, so it does not have to be reset to match time changes twice a year.

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annoynace for me too. daylight savings time that is

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Yah, SL is fun.

wow.. arizona dont have daylight savings time? since when?

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since ever apparently

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3. When you click the 'Log Out' button

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duh

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It's allways been my fault

just trying to help :p

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