As of late, this has often occurs. After a substantial amount of time between rests, the rest timer displays as five or six hours left before your next rest period.
The timer does not count down at all, but after the RL timer expires, you finally can rest.
Its more an annoyance than anything, not being able to have a good judge of time until you can rest.
This sounds more like the display message is not updating. ;o If the timer was not working you would not be able to rest at all!
I know its a display error. =P As I stated it was more of an annoyance, than anything, not being able to judge the next time you are going to be able to rest.
I think it's because you actually can rest within about 1-2 game hours. If you really had to wait 6 game hours, that would be about 3 hours in RL.
Perhaps instead of it saying, "you must wait (5 or 6) hours before resting again," it should just say, "you are not tired enough to rest yet."
Either that, or have the countdown be an OOC indication of how many more minutes you must wait.
I had a brief look at this recently and couldn't wrap my head around our strange implementation. Maybe we'll outsource it to our community and have them sweat over it. <.<
I fiddled a little with this in 137. Let's see if that fixes it.
I'll assume this is working. Report again if not.