No tick today?

[Jmanis]

There is no "usual" for the tick. Over the years I've played it's jumped around, often getting a material reset after releases or patches, simply from when FD chose to restart the tick 'clock'. For many months it slipped forward each day by a certain amount of minutes (I want to say 5-10 mins but it was 2-3 years back, so memory fades), so gradually moved on the clock (I suspected at the time that FD had set the "run tick" for 24 hours after the prior tick ENDED, hence a constant slip forward that accumulated into hours of slippage over a few weeks/months, rather than 24 hours from after the prior tick STARTED, which would help maintain a constant-ish tick time). True, in recent months its been stable-ish around 13:00 UTC, but don't let that fool yah!!

Yup... FD are always very savvy about saying the tick happens "roughly" every 24 hours, and historically that means the tick can shunt by up to 8 hours periodically. The regular tick I've seen in the past are, in GMT+11, 0100, 0800, 1800, 2300. The shifts don't happen that often these days, though occasionally they do.

For me, it's currently 1am GMT+11, but as the recent tick freeze verified, it's a sliding window, you can see state changes but not influence changes as the tick approaches.