World of Warcraft Players Think Something Strange is Going on With the Game's Day/Night Cycle

gamerant.com:

World of Warcraft fans have noticed the in-game day and night cycle seems to be backwards since the most recent weekly reset. In many World of Warcraft realms, players have inexplicably found a starlit Azeroth during the day, but with the sun up all night long.

The cycle of day and night in World of Warcraft is tied to each realm’s particular time. This means that as long as the server a player is on has a realm time similar to their own, the game world reflects their actual time of day, with the sun rising and setting over the course of a real-life 24-hour period.

However, ever since the weekly reset on Tuesday, February 13, players have noticed the day/night cycle seems to be messed up. Many fans have reported World of Warcraft was dark, even though the realm time indicated it was the middle of the day, and vice versa. Tyrsenus, a World of Warcraft player, was one such fan, who shared their discovery on the WoW subreddit. Their screenshot showed a region in the Spires of Arak, located on Alternate Draenor, proving it was not just the Classic World of Warcraft continents that were affected. The comments on Tyrsenus' post corroborated the inconsistency across multiple realms and regions.

Fans aren’t sure what to think about this strange occurrence. Most assume it is a simple glitch from the small hotfix applied during the brief maintenance period that accompanied the reset. Most of these incidents seem to be from NA players, so it is possible the day/night cycles on these realms were accidentally synced with their EU counterparts, who are currently reeling over a policy change regarding WoW tokens.

That said, others wonder if there is a deeper meaning behind the backward day/night cycle. Some have wondered if it could be a clue as to the mysterious World of Warcraft pirate patch, specifically in reference to the Nightsquall pirate ship teased in Dragonflight. Others half-joked that it was some sort of foreshadowing for Midnight, the second expansion in the Worldsoul