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This article documents how '''time''' works in ''Breath of the Wild''.

== Summary ==

=== About time ===

Time starts at 05:15 and will flow normally until 11:00 is reached. Activating the Great Plateau Tower sets the time to 11:00, shows the time on the UI and restores the normal flow of time.

=== About scheduled blood moons ===

Blood Moons occur at midnight if and only if the WM_BloodyDay flag is set. There is no way to force blood moons to be scheduled via gameplay actions.

== Details ==

Internally, time of day is stored as a float in the [0.0, 360.0] range. 0.0 is 00:00 and 359.x is 23:59.

=== Every game tick ===

If the Shrine of Resurrection exit cutscene (Demo103_0) hasn't played, time is reset to 78.75. This means that if you manage to clip out of the Shrine of Resurrection and skip that cutscene, the game clock will be stuck at 05:15.

=== Every time the timer reaches 360.0 (midnight) ===

First, WM_NumberOfDays is incremented. This has an effect on the moon cycle.

=== Blood Moon inhibitors ===

If any of the following conditions are true, the Blood Moon cutscene will not be triggered.

=== Special case: passing time at a campfire or sleeping ===

When you pass time at a campfire or sleep, the time is instantly set to the destination time. The game never speeds up or slows down the flow of time.

=== Moon type ===

The moon type is calculated based on the number of in-game days (WM_NumberOfDays). The exact formula is <code>(numberOfDays + x + 1) % 8</code><ref>{{addr|a=0x71010E8200|ver=nx-1.5.0}}</ref>, where x is equal to 1 if the current time is > 180.0 (noon) and % is the modulo operator.

==== Moon phases ====

Here are the possible values and associated phases:

* For more technical details, read the article on the [[WorldMgr]]. Sections of that article were extracted from it and simplified here.

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