To ensure everyone has the same word each day (so players can attempt to game the system using the scientifically best starting word), “Word Hunt” needs to ping what time it is for the player in UTC. While the concept may seem simple, urgle_gurgle pointed out that this is easier said than done. “You can get the time only from one specific feature in player heads,” they stated. “When you give yourself a player head, it gets info from the Mojang servers … most importantly, the time at which the player head was given.”
Through techniques like string parsing, urgle_gurgle determined how to get a Unix timestamp, which displays the number of seconds that have passed since January 1, 1970. With additional math, they were able to ascertain what time it is for each player and update the daily word appropriately. The only downside to this system is that the time is only checked when booting up the game, so players will need to restart to get the new word. Luckily, as urgle_gurgle remarked, most people don’t play “Wordle” or “Minecraft” for 24 hours at a time, so it shouldn’t cause much of an issue.
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