Do you have LimeyYoshi's updated file? I know I had some issue with it and pinged them to be told it had been updated.

I downloaded it a month ago, so it's the updated version. And the weird clock is the only issue I'm having, I haven't gotten any errors.

What's wrong with the pop up? Mine has always looked something like that. I will see if I have a screenshot.

What does LimeyYoshi's fix do? Does it fix the random "sim will be gone for 3 days" bug that you have to force error on them x2 to fix?

My popup has always said, "Subject will return in X hours X minutes".

And when it says more than 3 days (which it does very occasionally ) I force the subject home by 'deleting" them from the lot and then adding them back in by using the insimenator-that works.

That's clearly a glitch in the matrix.

I haven't downloaded any updated files.

I have both the CLT and Yoshi's patch. I've never seen the 'data retries' thing. And the timer concurs with when I know the sim should return. Was your sim really off-lot for eight days?

Nope, they were off-lot for the afternoon and came back correctly. The timer counts down, but in no discernible pattern.

I suspect you must have something else interfering with it, then.

I can't find a screenshot from my game, sorry. But the "data retries" screenshot looks like the original community time project from MATY, not Chris Hatch's version. That's why I thought it looked normal.

Or could it be a non-US-English language issue? I used to play in UK English and now play in US English (because it's the same and I couldn't be bothered to change it manually).

I remember the "8h40" etc because I remember thinking that is how times are written in French, and also, the original mod used to have two separate pop ups, one saying "Sim returning in XXX minutes" and one saying "Waiting until +0 days at 14h30" and the one with the clock time would time out while the other one stayed on screen and I remember thinking that was strange and it ought to be the other way around.

I'm having an issue which may be a conflict between Community Time Project and TimeController, both of them Chris Hatch's versions. Sims and pets are not aging normally...I thought I had it pinned down to the combination of TimeController and the "Lifestyle" religion update by cityof2morrow, but that seems less clear now.

Have others seen an aging problem using these mods?

In testing, I couldn't reproduce the glitch, but as soon as I started playing normally, it was back. Maybe CTP is also involved, because a major difference between testing and playing was that my sims visited community lots, although they were all at home when aging hour came. Would using the sethour cheat bypass the glitch somehow?

Let me ask you one weird question-do you have an aging hack for vampires in your downloads? It was by Squinge and although he updated it, I think it still does turns aging off for pets.
Specifically : aging on for vampires.

That one (although not a popular mod) is known to stop normal aging of pets. If you do have it, remove it. I have both the mods described in your post and they have never stopped aging.

Only that hack did. Once I removed it all was well.

No, I never play with vampires, that can't be it. Thanks for the suggestion, though. I did check my SQ folder just in case!

Do you use Community Time alongside the TimeController? Do your sims return home when the popup indicates? Since using the Time Controller and Lifestyles mods, my sims appear home a bit later than indicated. Not massively, and it seems to be proportional to how long they were off-lot. For a short outing they came home about 30 minutes after flagged, and for a longer spree, an hour or two.

If it isn't a problem between these three mods, I'm stumped. I already did the big search and thought I had found the cuplrit/s.

I've never had the 'lifestyle' mod-I have no idea what it is or what it does. I just have CLT and the time controller together in the same folder. No problems so far. They always show up at the time indicated.

However, I have had problems with them being stuck off home lot before, but that I've been able to cure by 'deleting' them off the lot and then 'restore family' with the Sim Blender, which works.

That's a known problem, nothing to do with any of the mods except sometimes the CLT gets stuck.

EDIT: I just looked up that 'lifestyle mod' and I would not touch any of that because any of the religious stuff by either Almighty Hat or Chris Hatch screws up my play style badly, to the point where I won't even dare put any of it in my game ever again.

Both of them are touchy to say the least.

Reference:
https://cityof2morrow.tumblr.com/po...-lifestyles-mod

It resets my Lot Sync Timer (which I depend on very heavily), and resets pixels themselves. It's been problematic for me ever since they came out.

It sounds like the 'lifestyle' is probably the culprit.

Actually, it may be something to do with SmartAgeCorrect - apparently even the you-can-leave-this-in versions are a bit pernickety if left in. I'm going to test that option.
mrcsthernr has given me a long list of load-order tweaks to help the TimeController fit better around other things.

I don't use the LotSyncTimer - could never get the hang of it! In the end I gave up. Funny what works for different people.

Damn, that life styles mod reads almost exactly the same as Chris Hatch's religion mod.

There is nothing to 'get the hang of' for it. You set it up on each lot, and it runs automatically each day (turning over at 6 pm). It just merely records the number of the day-you can mark 'special days' where you know someone is going to die or age up, (or whatever you want to mark) but it's not a hard mod to use.

I've modified mine to read a lot differently than Pescado wrote it-that took re-writing the text output on it. Some of its' features you never touch because it'll reset your game and that's not a good idea.

The one thing I do miss is that prior to one of the EP's you could actually 'jump' to the next lot that you want to play. I still miss that feature but Pescado refused to update it and has never done so. He says that the feature would disrupt the time/space continuum and he can't do that..

Wait sorry what resets the game? What does that mean? I use the LotSyncTimer all the time and I use the time warp function, despite Pescado's warnings. I did think this might be the culprit of the CLT mod issue. I always just assumed these were proxies for the SetHour / SetDay cheats? It has never destroyed any of my lots.

But actually, since putting in Limey's fix, I think it was probably that I would have either closed the dialog or saved while a sim was off-lot (which is what makes it change to grabbing the carpool car instead of the sim). Something really strange happened on one of my lots after putting this in though - I was playing a couple, and one of them said goodbye like a visitor and walked off the lot, and their portrait vanished. I thought it was strange because I was sure I remembered him moving in, but I thought maybe I'd just saved with him selectable and forgotten. I checked in his girlfriend's memories and she DID remember him joining the family. I took her to a community lot while I mulled this over, and when she came back there he was standing on the pavement with all his motives reset and his portrait reinstated. All seems fine with them now. So far (touch wood) I haven't had the extra-long-absence problem.