Calendar Freeze

Keep your game in one year while the seasons keep turning.

Pausing the calendar keeps the year fixed, but it also stops the seasons, weather and daylight that date-driven mods such as Realistic Environment Pro use. Calendar Freeze lets the calendar run and stops only the part you choose from rolling over: freeze the year and you get snow in winter and green in spring, every year, in 1980.

How to use

1. Enable Calendar Freeze for your game. For an existing save: Load Game, select the save, open Save Settings, then Mods, and tick Calendar Freeze. (Reloading from the in-game menu keeps the save's old mod list.)
2. In the game, click the calendar button in the mod button area at the top left. It shows the current level.
3. Pick a level. The freeze starts from today's in-game date: picking Year on 12 May 1980 keeps the game in 1980.
4. Keep the calendar running at any speed. Hover over the button to see what is frozen, for example "Year 1980".

Levels

• Off: normal calendar. The mod does nothing.
• Year: the year stays fixed; months, seasons, days and hours run. After 30 Dec the date goes back to 1 Jan of the same year.
• Month: the year and month stay fixed; after the last day of the month the date goes back to the 1st.
• Day: the date stays fixed; the hours of the day keep running.
• Hour: the date and hour stay fixed; the minutes keep running.

Picking a level again, even the same one, freezes the current date afresh. The level is saved with your game.

Good to know

• 31 December is skipped. The game unlocks the next year's vehicles the moment 1 January of a new year arrives, and that cannot be undone. So with Year (and Month in December) the date goes back on 31 Dec, and the new year never arrives. Day or Hour picked on 31 Dec freeze 30 Dec instead. Because the year never ends, year-end events do not happen, just as with a paused calendar.
• Hour may not hold while Realistic Environment Pro's long days or the game's Dynamic time of day are on, since both move the clock forward on their own.
• Calendar speed is not changed. With the calendar paused nothing moves, so the mod has nothing to do.
• Adding and removing is safe. With Off the mod changes nothing; after removing it the calendar simply runs on from the current date.
• Works with and without Realistic Environment Pro. Another mod that also sets the date may fight with it.