Does anyone have any suggestions or fixes for how to get the sim to display the right time? Since SU8 the sim will not keep the correct time for my time zone.
Obviously, I can toggle between days of the week, and month. However, when I switch to “live time” after I start a flight it always displays the wrong time for my region.
Any ideas on what may be causing this and how to fix it? I would be grateful for any help.
Is your PC time what you expect?
Are you using the G1000NXi?
If so is the UTC offset set correctly in the G1000NXi?
Is it wrong by one hour due to the failure to handle daylight savings time, about which there are some past threads?
Yes, I had to set it manually, but my PC has the accurate time. The other thing you mentioned, I don’t know what that is. Can you please explain? Thanks
No, that’s what I thought at first, but it’s off by several hours.
Sometimes when I set the time in the weather screen it will revert back to the time on the globe screen. Sometimes when I set the time on the globe screen it will be different when the flight loads. I assume my problem is user error but I also find it funny that I have to *outsmart" the software to get the time right.
Now I don’t pay much attention to time until the sim loads and I just change it there.
Yeah, it seems that is exactly what I’m going to have to do – set the time manually until a fix becomes available, or they fix the bug in a future update. Thanks for the imput.
You need to go into your Windows time settings and insure that your time zone is set correctly - not just the clock time. A new installation of Windows (at least in the US) will default to the Pacific time zone, and many users don’t know how to set it correctly. You can have the accurate local clock time, but incorrect time zone, and it won’t be obvious.
MSFS uses both your local clock time, and your time zone, to calculate what the actual current UTC is. The local time can be correct, but if the time zone is not set correctly, the UTC calculation will be wrong in the sim. If the time is “hours off” everywhere you go in the sim, this is likely the cause.
This would not apply in places like Arizona, where MSFS apparently does not “know” that the state does not observe daylight savings time, and there is also a long-standing bug in MSFS with the time in Hawaii.
Why doesn’t MSFS just use the time from where the departure point is? I don’t know why it should have anything to do with where my PC is located, or why it uses a behind the scenes default time that most people don’t know it exists.
Literally everything on your PC uses that time, such as for verifying that encryption certificates for HTTPS websites are still valid. So, uh, make sure it’s right.
The time at the departure point is determined by taking the current actual time. (As noted above, this must be actually correct or you will have problems.) Then the local time for that place is projected using a local time zone. This part is notoriously bad in MSFS with lots of daylight saving time related problems.
It’s also common to have time zone problems if you dual-boot Windows and Linux on the same machine. Many Linux distributions will reset the clock to UTC, while Windows prefers the PC’s local time zone. This can lead to incorrect times being shown on Windows; depending on how you have it set up it may or may not be getting reset weirdly.
The combination of your local time and your time zone is absolutely necessary for the computer to know what the current correct UTC (Greenwich Mean Time) is - because you could physically be located in any one of 24 time zones around the world. Everything in aviation is calculated in reference to UTC/GMT. If MSFS has the wrong UTC from the operating system, you’ll get the wrong local time at airports in the sim, the wrong Live Weather forecast for a specific location etc.
Thanks for all the responses, but I finally found that when I was syncing my PC clock, I forgot to switch the time zone on too. Just like another user said in the replies.
Appreciate everyone helping!
Why doesn’t Microsoft already know what time it is locally at my departure? Why are they even asking my PC?
I’ll figure it all out later when I have more time for this. It’s not a big deal, just find the behavior random and quirky.
MSFS can run offline as well as online, so it may not always be able to ask Microsoft. Like everything else on your computer, the time is simply determined by asking the operating system what time it is.
That’s what I find so odd… a PC never has to have the correct time (even unbeknownst to the user) so it is a terrible place for software to get it. Sure, offline default to PC time, but when online why not go to a trusted source?
I guess mobile phones are also confusing my personal bias, it’s cool to never have to set my time ever again. I realize it"s different tech…
Ok… so I have synch on and my time zone is set correctly. But for an example of a “problem”, I can choose my departure and destination points, then slide the UTC time to either night or day showing on the globe, but when the sim launches sometimes it will be the opposite of what the globe was showing. More than just the PC time synch, I haven’t spent the time to understand why it doesn’t work the way I am seeing it.
This is factually incorrect. If you set the wrong time, for instance, you will get errors about web site encryption certificates being invalid if the time is wrong enough to make that calculation wrong. That’s only one of thousands of examples.
This would not be based on the live time, and would thus have nothing to do with your clock.
[edit] Oh! I see you are not the original poster and are talking about an unrelated problem.
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