I am currently banned from Hypixel for Watchdog Cheat Detection, though I never installed any sort of cheat nor have I logged into the server the day of the ban. A way to justify this is to see when the last time I opened Minecraft to connect to the server. I was asking if there is some sort of way to see when I opened the application to screenshot and use it as evidence to support my false ban. Thank you.
This is irrelevant, cheat detection isn't hacking your computer to see what you have installed. All it's doing is analyzing your behavior presented in the game and making (logical) assumptions based on that. It's very much possible to cheat just by playing manually with no help from outside sources (utilities, hacked clients, nifty tips and tricks learned from reddit, etc). This analysis is far from perfect, however, which is why there are human admins backing it up.
I was asking if there is some sort of way to see when I opened the application to screenshot and use it as evidence to support my false ban.
Sort of. If you find the file in question using File Explorer or your OS equivalent, it should have a date showing the last time it was accessed (you may need to change how the files are displayed to see this). That is only for opening the app, however, it does not tell anything about what you may have done with it. It also doesn't keep a history, so there won't be any evidence to show if you played Minecraft sometime later.
It also doesn't keep a history, so there won't be any evidence to show if you played Minecraft sometime later.
It does, in .minecraft\logs, which will have logs from every time you played, each zipped in a separate file (latest.log is not zipped, zipped logs are named by the data and session ID. While highly unlikely these days, older versions, such as 1.6.4, kept two logs for the client and server which are simply appended to each time you play but each line is marked with the time and date):
I am currently banned from Hypixel for Watchdog Cheat Detection, though I never installed any sort of cheat nor have I logged into the server the day of the ban. A way to justify this is to see when the last time I opened Minecraft to connect to the server. I was asking if there is some sort of way to see when I opened the application to screenshot and use it as evidence to support my false ban. Thank you.
This is irrelevant, cheat detection isn't hacking your computer to see what you have installed. All it's doing is analyzing your behavior presented in the game and making (logical) assumptions based on that. It's very much possible to cheat just by playing manually with no help from outside sources (utilities, hacked clients, nifty tips and tricks learned from reddit, etc). This analysis is far from perfect, however, which is why there are human admins backing it up.
Sort of. If you find the file in question using File Explorer or your OS equivalent, it should have a date showing the last time it was accessed (you may need to change how the files are displayed to see this). That is only for opening the app, however, it does not tell anything about what you may have done with it. It also doesn't keep a history, so there won't be any evidence to show if you played Minecraft sometime later.
It does, in .minecraft\logs, which will have logs from every time you played, each zipped in a separate file (latest.log is not zipped, zipped logs are named by the data and session ID. While highly unlikely these days, older versions, such as 1.6.4, kept two logs for the client and server which are simply appended to each time you play but each line is marked with the time and date):
(this is from the client log for 1.6.4 singleplayer; multiplayer probably shows which servers you joined)
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?