Is there a way to update game clock to reflect clocks going forward?

[Brieus]

Yeah, you need timezones on a 20th Century surface-dwelling civilisation limited to a single planet.

Nah, they lost the concept of timezones once they realised literally no other planets that had been settled happened to have a day of 23h 56m and 11s and an orbit of exactly one year. You need both for 24 time zones of one hour to be any use. (And as others have pointed out, they're not always much use anyway. Ask an American TV exec about scheduling peak times and sporting events; then again, India uses the opposite approach of trying to keep to 5 1/2 hours and farmers on both coasts hate it.)

The Federation was formed in the 2240s across multiple systems with multiple settled bodies. Timezones were dead at that point.


They are not games which simulate an interstellar economy. Y'all come on this forum and complain about immersion but then ask for the instrumentation to give you Earthbound timezones so you can tell the time in a way that the Federation abandoned the minute it was founded a thousand years earlier?

On Earth in 2025 the movement of cargo was still dictated by the speed of maritime logistics, but citizens did not measure time in ship's bells and nor did they get up with the sun or go to bed with the sun.


What's baffling is why you're asking a simulator to simulate something that simply doesn't exist in the simulated universe.

Well, this is all a load of . There's no reason that all that we can't have an option to display whatever time we want on our in in-ship HUD.

And looking at the time on the taskbar doesn't do me any good when I'm running a fullscreen window.

 

[evanevery]

Space has no sunset or sunrise. DST or time zones are simply not relevant. Get over it.

Aviation has been UTC times for ages for to enable the coordination of global activities.

There is no point to have time zones in space. You want wheels on your ships too?

 

[Jack Winter]

Funnily enough the contact history seems to show local time and not UTC.

 

[Neilski]

Funnily enough the contact history seems to show local time and not UTC.

Yeah, snap! I just noticed that tonight for the first time

 

[aRJay]

Funnily enough the contact history seems to show local time and not UTC.

Yeah, snap! I just noticed that tonight for the first time

Been doing that for years, possibly since the major UI rework. I eventually stopped bothering to read the times there.

 

[IstvaanDCIV]

Changing the clocks is an archaic and pointless practice in a world where cheap and powerful electric lighting is nigh-universal. I'm glad to see that they don't stand for such nonsense in the 34th century. If only we could be so forward-thinking in the 21st.