Maybe after WW3 they made the official time fit with actual Washington time?
Why would they choose the time of a city that got nuked into oblivion? And England would never agree to that anyway.Maybe after WW3 they made the official time fit with actual Washington time?
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?Why would they choose the time of a city that got nuked into oblivion? And England would never agree to that anyway.
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.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.
Only because the British made it so, The zero could have been anywhere, depending who decided where the navigation started first.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.
Which assists in making the point I made - a chosen rather than 'natural' meridian.the French (of course) abstaining as they wanted the Paris meridian.
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.Why is it already evening in Europe and night in Africa when it's only 10:14 UTC?
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.Which assists in making the point I made - a chosen rather than 'natural' meridian.
Good info, though!
Personally, I wouldn't care....You wouldn't want the 180th and therefore the dateline cut through the middle of Asia.
... the world map edges almost cut through no continent, ...
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.
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No doubt other countries produce maps with other alignments.
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.Why is it already evening in Europe and night in Africa when it's only 10:14 UTC?
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No it doesn't, and I'm in UTC+1.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.
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.)![]()
What cities? Do you have a map of 3309 Earth to prove it's wrong?Btw, the lights of the cities are incorrect aswell. Don't hope FD will ever change this.