This is rather hard to explain but I am trying to be as a clear as possible. My first time posting on this forum, hope I am doing it correctly!
This is a new issue that has arisen for me after downloading the Outdoor Expansion pack as well as moving Sims to apartments in San Myshuno.
Every time I save one household and go back to playing another household, the time of day and the day of the week where I left off the previous household transfers to the newly opened household. For example, if I saved Household A at 10:40 AM on Monday (Sim time), I will then restart Household B at 10:40 AM on Monday even though I last left Household B on a Saturday night (again, Sim time).
This has caused the households to open up with glaring messages saying the kids are "missing school" and the adults are "missing work" because the game seems to have "proceeded" along the same timeline as the last active household rather than returning to the timeline it was on for its last save. As an example, I left one pregnant mom in trimester 1 to go to play another household, and when I returned she was in trimester 3, having advanced in time along with the household I last played rather than returning to the day/time I saved for the pregnant mom's household. I thought this was maybe just concentrated to apartments, but I am seeing it everywhere from Willow Creek to Windenburg.
In gameplay settings, I have it set so that inactive households DO NOT AGE. Please help! I have already tried to repair the game through Origin and by deleting cache files. I have never had mods or custom content, ever. I have only just encountered this problem after starting Sims 4 two months ago. It is really affecting my gameplay, as every time I move between households, I am cleaning up a mess :-(