Decided Against Restart info command

Thought it would be neat to you a restart command that would display the last restart time and the next restart time.

 

Although it is plausible to calculate the next restart as they are at regular intervals (6-8) hours based on European time I do agree with your suggestion. Restarts always seem to come outta nowhere at the worst time even with the warnings!

 

not sure if you have noticed this but the newer versions show time untill restart when you hit tab , aka the online players list (at the bottom). Don't recall it doing that in the older packs though. Rule of thumb, when you log in ... 10 minutes untill restart ... max !

 

As it was said, packs on 1.10+ show it in the tab player menu at the bottom. Older packs if you really want to know, you can check how long the server has been up since last restart at Server Status - MineYourMind 5.0, and use math to figure out how long till the next one. Servers restart every 8 hours.

 

Unless they don't. But you can also figure out the interval with math.

 

Except they do.
Here's proof even.

In-game restart timer on PO3 Kappa:


PO3 Kappa's uptime on server status page:


So unless you'd like to tell me that the server status page is wrong or the admins randomly change the restart times to mess with players, it's safe to assume it's an 8 hour interval all around.

 

Not sure how a single screenshot for kappa proofs anything for all servers. Different servers have different restart intervals. Of course the interval for one specific server is constant (until an admin changes it)

 

Right let me rephrase that then, most servers restart on an 8 hour interval except the less stable ones.

 

That is probably correct. Would be interesting to add a column to the stats page that lists the intervals.

 

That's an accurate statement, restarts are based around the stability of a pack with a ceiling of 8h (unless we forget to check that box when setting up a server). As the hardware improves and packs become stable they slowly move to that eight hour window. Back in my day it was two to four hours and we liked it just fine...

 

To be fair, back then modding was a lot more unstable. It was necessary at the time.

 

As I do agree with all of your ideas 100%, it would just be much easier to do a /restartinfo in game and not have to access the site... The variable is obviously already stored for when it was last shut down ( status page proves that ) and the variable is obviously is stored to know when the server restarts ( otherwise it wouldn't know when to restart ) , it wouldn't be that hard to just display those variables in chat...