I ctr-no-time offset safe to use at any time?

[themanuel]

I modded my New3DS a couple of years ago following the 3dshacks guide, including using no-time-offset. Everything has been working great, but I noticed today my 3DS was reporting 2031 as the date. After making sure I had not accidentally used my powers and traveled to the future, I proceeded to use the no-time-offset app to correct the date. Everything seems fine, except that Checkpoint would throw an error when trying to back up saves: "cannot create destination directory".

I ended up fixing it by deleting the checkpoint directory under the "3ds" directory in the SD card, but I was wondering:

1. Whether this might have been caused by the date correction
2. Whether the date correction might cause other issues when used arbitrarily like I did

Caveat: I did update the Checkpoint app today, but the updated version had worked before correcting the date. I mention it in case there is a convergence of issues clouding the situation here.

 

[godreborn]

I think so. You're supposed to use that, then correct rtc in godmode iirc. I don't think it will harm the system even if you use it later.

 

[themanuel]

Thanks. Why does it need to be corrected in both places?

 

[godreborn]

I'm not sure if you have to use the app you used or not. rtc takes care of things like time-dependent stuff so that you can't cheat by changing the 3ds time or something. I used both. godmode uses rtc time whenever you dump something. I don't know if that's the reason your clock was messed up. the 3ds clock and the rtc are not connected unless the battery dies afaik.