How do we now know it? Did SE ever mention it?

"Can you officially confirm the crafting variables? Does direction, day of the week, time of day etc. affect crafting in anyway?

A: They do not."

August 1, 2016.

Now that is something I would love to show a friend of mine who believed in it

Check either earlier in this thread, or the similar one in the crafting forum. Nabutso linked SE's responses to an 'Ask Me Anything' they did on Reddit.

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I wouldn't believe it to be the word of god if they hadn't gone back into the crating code in recent years.

Spaghetti, parties responsible moving on, etc.

I read the original source for all the rumors on Day/Direction/moon for crafting.

The guy had sample sizes of under ~50 for each category. Everyone accepted his results with no challenge. Looking back through old forum threads on alla, there were MANY theories. That guy's was just one of them that people latched onto. Probably the writing style or timing of his post really got people turned onto it.

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On every item you see 2 item caps. One is for the skill and the other is for T1. For example Mahatma slops says Clothcraft (94/105), Leathercraft (26/37). So at 94 you will stop getting skillups and you need a skill of 105 to be T1

2/52 on T1 since the most recent update.. great

If he's talking about retail wiki, the later number 10 skill levels higher is when you stop getting skillups from the synth. You can now get skillups up to 10 levels higher than the actual cap. It's not displayed in a very intuitive manner, though, and definitely a little confusing.

The number is 11 skills higher. Even if it displayed that, it also displays how much you need for T1.