Day/night and weather cycles?

Hey, just playing through the game, noticing moving shadows, Rain, snow, npcs saying “good morning”…

So the game has these day/night and weather cycles, but do they impact the actually gameplay or are they just part of the ‘immersion’?

The time of day was supposed to have some kind of effect on gameplay and it exists in the game code, but it was disabled.

This bugged amulet displayed in chat reveals that stats could be different based on time of day, which I imagine might have originally been mapped to certain unique items.
Screenshot from my post back in August: forums/d2r-bugged-item-t1112904.html

Cool thx!