Maybe after WW3 they made the official time fit with actual Washington time?
Earth's time of day is not right
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Why would they choose the time of a city that got nuked into oblivion? And England would never agree to that anyway.
Wasn't Europe more or less wiped out, and the remaining nations joined the US? It would make sense if they changed the time to correspond to where the new capital is?
Though I'm not sure if that's the case, it's just a possible explanation that came to me.
That explains why everyone hates the Federation lol... but no it wouldn't make sense because the 0° longitude is still in London, which is what UTC is based on.
Only because the British made it so, The zero could have been anywhere, depending who decided where the navigation started first.
Actually "forty-one delegates representing twenty-five nations" choose it in 1884 in Washington - the French (of course) abstaining as they wanted the Paris meridian.
(N.B. Nowadays this is superseded by "Terrestrial Reference" thingie which I know nowt about.)
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Which assists in making the point I made - a chosen rather than 'natural' meridian.
Good info, though!
Because the Elite Dangerous Galaxy is not the Milky Way Galaxy. It has similar proportions and curiously shares a few star names and their approximate positions but exists in an otherwise completely different universe with different physics.
Probably not what you want to read, though?
Edit: that's what I get for opening a tab and replying to it a day later. Page 2.
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This gets mentioned on the Forums from time to time (sic). The first indirect reference I can find with a quick search is from the Gamma forum in 2014, so might not be accessible to everyone. The first where the discrepancy is explicitly called out and confirmed, rather than being mostly speculation, is in a thread from 2015.
It was chosen well though. It means the world map edges almost cut through no continent, except for a small far eastern part of Russia. Maybe that could have been solved as well by choosing Rome as the meridian instead.
You wouldn't want the 180th and therefore the dateline cut through the middle of Asia.
That is just a function / choice of the map-maker / government ... USA for example frequently uses America-centric projections.. e.g.
Maps And Perceptions Of The World - Sociological Images
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America Centric World map
America Centric World map, Robinson projection, detailed world map, available in editable, layered format for illustrator
www.freeworldmaps.net
No doubt other countries produce maps with other alignments.
They're improperly made maps. Proper maps always have the meridian in the center and the 180th degree at the edges.That is just a function / choice of the map-maker / government ... USA for example frequently uses America-centric projections.. e.g.
Maps And Perceptions Of The World - Sociological Images
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesotathesocietypages.org
America Centric World map
America Centric World map, Robinson projection, detailed world map, available in editable, layered format for illustrator
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No doubt other countries produce maps with other alignments.
OT: as someone who used to mess around with directional antennas, this was the only "proper" map...
(I had a copy of this exact map but I suspect it's long gone. I pinched this image from eBay.)
It wouldn't matter we would all be under water ...
Are you in UTC? Perhaps the game takes YOUR timezone into account when calculating time in stellar forge. I mean it would kind of explain why my friends and I going to the same planet, they see day, while I see night.
No it doesn't, and I'm in UTC+1.
Besids that, you can also see the wrong seasonal tilt. It should be vertical since we are close to spring, not in the middle of summer.
OT: as someone who used to mess around with directional antennas, this was the only "proper" map...
(I had a copy of this exact map but I suspect it's long gone. I pinched this image from eBay.)
It is only "proper" if you live in Potters Bar - the current one has "gone political" and is probably centred on Bedford now.
Btw, the lights of the cities are incorrect aswell. Don't hope FD will ever change this.
What cities? Do you have a map of 3309 Earth to prove it's wrong?