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Bulbasaur posted...

it never occurred to you to just...change the time?

It's an option, but then you have to change it again when you want to access a different time of day, which just gets kind of tedious. It's one thing with a game like Animal Crossing, where it's meant to be a parallel life of sorts (and the real-time windows for doing stuff tend to be relatively wide, plus there are measures like the Night Owl ordinance that can help adjust it to work better with a schedule), but for a game like Pokemon where real-time day/night cycles are mostly just a gimmick, it's an unnecessary inconvenience.

Generally speaking, day/night systems should cycle relatively quickly and/or have an easily accessible option in-game to manually change the time. Having to save, shut down the game, go into the system settings, and adjust the system clock in there really isn't a reasonable workaround when the problem doesn't even have to exist in the first place. That's just a hassle, even without considering that it's going to affect any other games you're playing that rely on the system clock.