How to Change the Time Acceleration Speed on Your DayZ Server
DayZ
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Feb 9, 2025
Both day and night time duration in DayZ can be increased or decreased to make them longer or shorter.
Changing the Time Acceleration Speed
You can change the Time Acceleration Speed in the serverDZ.cfg file.
Access your Control Panel and Stop the server.
Access your Control Panel and Stop the server.
Navigate to the Files tab.
Navigate to the Files tab.
Locate and Open the serverDZ.cfg file.
Locate and Open the serverDZ.cfg file.
If you wish to change the overall time duration, locate Time Acceleration and edit this to your preferred time.
If you wish to change the overall time duration, locate Time Acceleration and edit this to your preferred time.
The numerical value you set is a multiplier of the default time. The value options range from 0-24.
If you wish to change the night time duration, locate Night Time Acceleration and edit this to your preffered time.
If you wish to change the night time duration, locate Night Time Acceleration and edit this to your preffered time.
The number value you set is a multiplier of the default night time. The options can range from 0.1-64, and is multipled by the
Time Accelerationvalue.
Click Save and Restart your server.
Click Save and Restart your server.
Example of Acceleration Values
Here is an example to help you better understand the acceleration values:
Setting Time Acceleration to 12 would mean that time would process 12 times faster than the default, resulting in an entire day passing in 2 hours rather than 24.
Setting Night Time Acceleration to 3, whilst Time Acceleration is set to 2, would mean that night time would move six times (3 * 2) faster than normal. Resulting in night time passing 4 hours rather than 24.
Additional Changes you can make to your DayZ server could be changing the loot tables, information on how to do this can be found here.
Jay Miller
Game Experience Engineer @ Shockbyte