Pickles comitted his turn now, which caused a quick hosting. The timer went up from 3hrs to 27hrs
as it should, hence skipping the fixed hosting scheduled today at 12:00h.
So everything seems to work well as assumed!
@NORFLEET: I am not sure what happens if the server is restarted, however.
So if you ever have to restart the server then please disable the timer, just to be sure. I guess things are fine as long as the server is not touched anymore, although I will keep an eye open on that issue.
If you think that the server has to be restarted more than once in a while,
then disable quick-hosting for the remaining game, please. The benefits of QH is not worth the trouble: Its nice to have, but by no means necessary. Thank you!