TimeGate Server Opening Hours v1.0.0

TimeGate keeps your server open only during the hours you choose. Outside those hours only your staff can connect; everyone else is turned away with a tidy message, the server list shows OPEN or CLOSED, and players get a heads-up before closing.

Everything is configurable in game — you rarely need to touch the config file, and every change is saved automatically.

A complete opening-hours plugin: real time zones with DST, holidays and date ranges, a proper maintenance mode with its own message, a live server-list MOTD, a pre-close lockout, and full in-game configuration that actually saves — all in one lightweight, dependency-free jar.

Features

• Open/close times on a 24-hour clock, in the time zone you choose (daylight saving handled)
• The window can cross midnight (e.g. open 15:00, close 03:00)
• Per-weekday rules - different hours each day, or a day fully open/closed
• Date exceptions - single dates or ranges forced open/closed or with special hours (holidays, events)
• Maintenance switch - force the server open or closed on the spot, with a custom message
• Staff bypass via a permission
• Warnings a few minutes before closing
• Pre-close lockout - optionally stop new joins a few minutes before closing
• Soft close - kick at closing time, or let players finish and only block new joins
• Live MOTD that flips between open and closed
• No dependencies - drop in and go

Commands - /timegate (aliases /tg, /hours)

• status - show the hours and whether the server is open now (anyone)
• set <open> <close> - default hours, e.g. /tg set 15:00 03:00
• day <mon..sun|all> <open|closed|clear|HH:mm-HH:mm> - per-weekday rule
• date <YYYY-MM-DD[..YYYY-MM-DD]> <open|closed|clear|HH:mm-HH:mm> - date exception
• days / dates - list per-day rules / exceptions
• override <open|closed|off> [message] - maintenance switch
• timezone <zone>, warnings <m...>, reload

Permissions

• timegate.bypass - connect even while the server is closed (default: op)
• timegate.admin - change the hours with /timegate (default: op)

Example

Requirements: Spigot / Paper 1.20.1, Java 17. All messages support & colour codes.

Free to use. Built by Cobayka.