Changing in game clock????

[Lunchmoney]

So... how do you tell the time when you're no in the game?

Second monitor.
Clock on keyboard.
What the wifelet is watching on TV.
My watch.
My phone.
.....

You get the idea. I barely look at the ingame clock and it's in the same "time zone" as me in the UK.

 

[sndle9]

Second monitor.
Clock on keyboard.
What the wifelet is watching on TV.
A watch.
My phone.
.....

You get the idea. I barely look at the ingame clock and in the same "time zone" as me in the UK.

Beware, It's only inline with UK time for now. It will be an hour out later as it doesn't follow BST.

 

[StiTch]

Not really....
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GMT = Greenwich Mean Time (originally the local mean solar time measured at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, UK but since 1959/1960 I believe this time is generated by a number of synchronised Atomic Clocks around the world including one at Greenwich)
UTC = Coordinated Universal Time (ITU standard time used and recognised internationally since 1960 - also recognised in some circles as Zulu time for notation reasons)
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Officially GMT = UTC+0 but in essence they are the same thing. I believe that in practice UTC is derived from GMT, rather than the other way round (GMT was a time standard established in 1884 and UTC was a term adopted in 1928 by astronomers to refer to GMT). Seehere on Wikipedia for details.
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In-game I would expect the Human Universe to run off UTC or a derivative there of for historic and cultural reasons.

There is some discrete difference between the two, but also while UTC is solid some places that observe GMT have clock changes - so over here when BST kicks in, I get confused as hell because Elite suddenly displays the wrong time for me -_-

 

[Lunchmoney]

Beware, It's only inline with UK time for now. It will be an hour out later as it doesn't follow BST.

Like I said, I'm in the UK and it hasnt affected me in the last two summers....

 

[StiTch]

Like I said, I'm in the UK and it hasnt affected me in the last two summers....

*chuckles* I certainly imagine it wouldn't have affected you last year, eh...

 

[IndigoWyrd]

GMT - Galactic Mean Time.
UTC - Coordinated Universe Time.

Should UTC be "Universal Time Coordinated" then? Or perhaps it should be CUT instead?

 

[StiTch]

Should UTC be "Universal Time Coordinated" then? Or perhaps it should be CUT instead?

From the great wikipedia: "The compromise that emerged was UTC, which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time (UT0, UT1, UT2, UT1R, etc.)"

 

[Para Handy]

Beware, It's only inline with UK time for now. It will be an hour out later as it doesn't follow BST.

BST is humbug. My house clocks stay on GMT all year round, if I can be bothered to check maybe I could stop my weather-station and phone clocks being synced to dst by the external sync system - unfortunately my PVR(s) have to show the time ordinary UK people suffer but I ignore those as I prefer to live by the real solar-noon system. So E D time is perfect for me, thanks.

EDIT - oops, just saw this was a necro, sorry.

 

[pro510]

I'm going to add my vote to have an additional clock which shows local time. I get the need for in-game time but I play Elite exclusively in VR now and this is the only clock I can see. I can do the subtraction to get to my local time, but I'd prefer just to have the option of showing local time, like I have in Windows now.