In-Game Clock

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Did a quick search and didn't see anything, so...

Could we possibly get an option to display our clock in local time? Is this even the right place to ask this? Should I just go somewhere and write a suggestion ticket? Where would that be?
 

Yaffle

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Yaffle
It's a game timer, not a clock.

It happens to be using UTC as a flag of convenience. Very few games let you change the in-game timer to your local timezone.
 

h347h

h347h
So there could be a good reason for not having it change. You some times get missions where you need to be in a system in the time frame they give which is displayed by our clock. So if they can change how missions display the time to match our clock sure.
 

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Yaffle said:
It's a game timer, not a clock.

It happens to be using UTC as a flag of convenience. Very few games let you change the in-game timer to your local timezone.
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I completely disagree with you. I can't think of any other game I own that refuses to display my local time.

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h347h said:
So there could be a good reason for not having it change. You some times get missions where you need to be in a system in the time frame they give which is displayed by our clock. So if they can change how missions display the time to match our clock sure.
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I don't see why they couldn't.

Regarding the whole immersion thing, it makes just as little sense for the clock to be in forced UTC as it does for it to be in any other timezone.
 

YinYin

YinYin
I personally find it really handy referring to in game time when talking to other players. That would be lost if everyone could change their time setting.


h347h said:
So there could be a good reason for not having it change. You some times get missions where you need to be in a system in the time frame they give which is displayed by our clock. So if they can change how missions display the time to match our clock sure.
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Making all time references match your setting goes without saying.


edit: I also always think of it as GTC - galactic time - entirely arbitrary, but at least the same for everyone
 
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Jack Schitt

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This keeps cropping up. I don't have a problem with the idea of a galactic mean time but then I'm never more than an hour's difference from it so maybe I'm complacent. I guess it might be different for folks who are half a day out or more. I wonder if FD could introduce an feature whereby all the in-game clocks and timers could be given the same offset? So everything would still run on "server time" but each player would see their own offset version? Obviously we can't change just the cockpit clock, as the OP suggests, or it would render it useless for timed missions.

On a tangent: I would like it if there could be a second clock (or maybe a temporary override of the primary clock) that shows a countdown related to the last selected mission and adjusts for those last minute delivery window bonuses. I had one last night that gave me two minutes from hyperspace exit to get to the surface outpost and deliver the goods. It was exciting and I just made it, but it would have been even better with a real-time countdown on the HUD.
 

Yaffle

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Get an overlay if it worries you so much?

So, about that watch in Skyrim your character has? My most recent game not Elite is Fallout 4. Can't make my damn pip-boy change to my time zone.

It's in game as a timer, and it syncs all the missions. Time zones are irrelevant in space, and make no sense using earth time zones on other worlds. The ISS uses UTC.

I honestly think FD should have switched to some form of decimal time to stop these threads appearing every week or so.
 

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YinYin said:
I personally find it really handy referring to in game time when talking to other players. That would be lost if everyone could change their time setting.
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Now that is a very good point. How about the option to display both a UTC and local clock? Seems reasonable enough. I happen to have three displayed on my computer at the moment.
 

YinYin

YinYin
vindelanos said:
Now that is a very good point. How about the option to display both a UTC and local clock? Seems reasonable enough. I happen to have three displayed on my computer at the moment.
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Absolutely. Set a custom time and have it displayed additionally to the galactic one. Don't set it and everything stays as tidy as it is.
 

Sapient6

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h347h said:
So there could be a good reason for not having it change. You some times get missions where you need to be in a system in the time frame they give which is displayed by our clock. So if they can change how missions display the time to match our clock sure.
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But I will literally never have that experience, so wouldn't it make sense for me to be able to optionally have the time displayed in my local time zone?
 

Bartizan

Bartizan
Implemented after so many players requested it due to new time based missions, and I don't recall any threads about local time until after the clock was added. It doesn't need an option to change it and I would recommend against it based purely on the point of it being added giving us the in-game standard time for the galaxy.

Buy a wall clock.
 

DaveB

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While the social aspect of the game is limited by various technical factors, it nonetheless exists. That being the case I'd like to see in-game time remain unified in a single zone as it currently is, so that players from differing time zones have a common clock as a reference.
 

Sapient6

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YinYin said:
I personally find it really handy referring to in game time when talking to other players. That would be lost if everyone could change their time setting.
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I disagree. WoW had a clock that showed server time by default but could be changed to local time, and scheduling events was never problematic ("raid starts at 9pm server time" == "everyone shows up").
 

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DaveB said:
While the social aspect of the game is limited by various technical factors, it nonetheless exists. That being the case I'd like to see in-game time remain unified in a single zone as it currently is, so that players from differing time zones have a common clock as a reference.
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And that's why I'm saying, allow for the option of having two clocks -- one GMT and one local. That way, whenever you need to coordinate time, you could just do it in UTC/GMT. But you would also have the convenience of knowing what time it is (for you, as a real person) by just looking at your HUD.
 
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