If you’ve played Gran Turismo 7 today — an hour later than usual — you might find yourself on the receiving end of a curious bug in the game: completing Daily Workout mileage will not award a Roulette Ticket.
It’s actually directly connected to the clock change itself, which for most players will happen automatically due to the date and time settings on their consoles for daylight savings detection.
The issue appears to arise from a “fix” implemented quite early in the game’s life, related to an exploit from Gran Turismo games of old. In essence you could trick the game into giving you daily rewards much more frequently than daily, by waiting until midnight and manually changing the game’s time zone back one hour.
Using this technique it was possible to rack up around 30 daily rewards — a month’s worth — each day, thanks to several 15-minute and 30-minute offset timezones in addition to the 26 hourly time zones (+14 to -12) around the world.
This was possible in Gran Turismo 7 too, but Polyphony Digital quietly addressed the issue with an update in April 2022. However the fix appears to crack down on local clock changes by denying a Roulette Ticket reward on any day in which a time zone change is detected on the console, rather than tying the Daily Workout to a server time.
As a result, players in Australia and New Zealand noticed the tickets were not being awarded properly on October 2, 2022, when southern hemisphere clocks advanced to summer time. Sure enough the European clock change to winter time, on October 30, resulted in the same issue, as did the North American change on November 6.
Five months later, as the clocks move in opposite directions, the bug may rear its head once more — starting with the US change to summer time on Sunday March 12.
If you find yourself affected by the issue, our experiments with console clock changes suggest that players won’t receive a Roulette Ticket for completing the Daily Workout either on the day the clock is changed or the following day, but things should be back to normal on the day after that.
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