Board Thread:Current Major Glitch Discussion/@comment-26544836-20180519184001/@comment-31657987-20180522020521

I play on an iPad also. There seems to be a difference between the game clock and a local clock (I have no idea about the technical terminology). This started when G5 made some changes a while back to try to stop time travel. Now if I just close the cover (I know it as suspend from windows), the clock stops. When you come out of suspend, the clock starts from where it left off.

This is an example of what I have observed during EDT, where the normal gifting resets at 8PM. Say you suspend your game at 5PM and come back to the game at 7PM and play for an hour. You expect gifting to reset at 8PM. But the local game clock thinks you restarted at 5PM and played for an hour so it does not reset. This can be an advantage when I am late in gifting / visiting. I can complete this after the real 8PM time because the local clock thinks it is earlier.

To get to actual time, just close out the app by sliding upwards. When you bring up the app, the clocks will be in sync and gifting is reset. I don’t have to totally shut down the iPad.