narrow special case?
Who doesn’t depart from an airport in their timezone?
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Everybody who’s doing LR (or even MR) flights on 50% of the flights?
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Out of all my flights, I only depart from my home airport about 10% of the time.
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People who enjoy exploring the world instead of their neighborhood 
I often depart from airports outside my own time zone. I live in North Carolina, but I often do flights to and from Catalina Island or up in the PNW. I also have some favorite destinations in the Caribbean. If you want a challenge, Munich to Sion is a challenge in a normally aspirated piston plane, since you have some seriously high mountains in your path, and the weather doesn’t always cooperate!
I agree it’s confusing.
Seems to be one of those many many many loose ends of this sim. I just ignore time completely… it always seems to be ‘off’ by some value. I decide if I want to fly sun down, sun up, at night or during the day and slide until it gives me those conditions.
That is probably the time that passes between starting the sim, and the sim actually becoming available to use. 
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What exactly is confusing?
It might be off by a dozen of minutes, but other than that it’s all consistent.
Without an airport selection it defaults to UTC, thats all.
Why does it need to be off by dozens of minutes??
We’re not living in 18th century France anymore, with our sun dial… I don’t like this lack of detail.
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Because it sets the time when you first run the sim, it doesn’t flow in real time. So if for example you start the sim at 10:00 UTC, then after the loading screen, then you playing around with the settings, then look at your hangar, check your logs, choose your airplane, livery, and route, etc. You could be ready at around 10:20 UTC. At this time, the time shown in the sim would still be 10:00 UTC. Because that’s when you start the sim.
As I said in my previous post, if you want to resync your time, just go to your flying conditions, under weather profile, and click on LIVE button which will sync the sim time with the current time. But even after you done so, it still doesn’t flow. It just resets the time.
If you want to always fly in real current time and flows at the same time without you having to press all that. Set your flying conditions to have Live Multiplayer, this will Grey out the Time and Weather options, not allowing you to change it but it will always be synced with the current time all the time, and it will flow in real time too.
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That is mostly correct.
Apart from this: when I start up the sim and select my local airport as departure, it presents me with a time that’s 25 minutes too early. It’s like it’s just guessing around. And that’s immediately after startup without loitering around 25 minutes. Based on a wrong UTC.
That’s just unnecessary. There’s no good reason to have to click ‘live’ first. It is presenting a time ‘sort of close by’. Just make it the correct one? Why is there this wrong UTC? No doubt that’s a bug.
It probably has some technical explaination.
But if you really need the current time, select Live conditions, it will keep time live as well.
If you work with a preset, since as you said you anway change the time based on your preferred daytime, it shouldn’t bother you anyway since you obviously don’t want live time.
Are we really talking about 25min difference now (the original posts suggested otherwise)? If so, did you report it via Zendesk?
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I have no idea what LR and MR mean.
Guess that I did not explain my point correctly.
When I said: “Who doesn’t depart from an airport in their timezone?”
I meant that wherever you are, you are in your timezone,
not in your home timezone.
Also, if the time is 8:00PM and I load FS2020, I don’t want to fly in the dark.
I would like to have FS2020 always load with the time set to 1:00PM.
I thought that is what Preset or Custom was about.
See, this is what’s starting to bother me about this forum a bit.
People come in with a valid complaint. And in no time they are the stupid ones. It’s not really bothering me - this time bug - but I wasn’t too thrilled with how topic starter was approached.
I’m fine if you all think this sim is wonderful, but bugs are bugs. No matter if I report them or not. Please do not try to make illogical stuff ‘logical’.
I will retreat now… I need some Zen (without a desk 
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LongRange / MediumRange
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The complaint was that the time shown was not the local time and I explained it further up. Until an airport is selected, the sim cannot show local times.
See the original post:
If the request was to have a fixed preset time whenever you start, it was all but clear from the descriptions and it’s simply not supported (but neither is it a bug or confusing, it’s just not a feature).
Multiple people, including me, agreed that there is a slight time difference but this is not related to the issues described by the thread opener and some further discussions, it was brought up later and certainly could be reported as a bug.
So if this is the only remaining issue, you should rather direct your effort to file this bug if it bothers you. But I think it was by no means the real topic in this thread.
I don’t need to, the sim alrady shows it in your own screenshot.
You can customize the weather. But nobody said it would persist time selection throughout sim restarts.
Time is never part of weather presets or customization (it’s just part of the same menu), otherwise you’d end up switching the time inflight whenever you switch the weather preset.
Still I wonder how hard it really is to press a button or adjust a slider to your desired time. But maybe it’s just me not bothering to do that before each flight since it’s anyway part of the preparation - just like loading a flight plan and selecting an aircraft (which is unfortunately far less convenient than it could be, but there are wishlist threads about it already).
I’m pretty sure this is what saved flights are for, .flt files, where you load a saved flight when you start up. That way you should be able to get everything you’re asking for (except for the choice of where to start).
IOW, yes, they have a UI to do what you are asking. I’m not 100% positive it starts at the time you save the flight at, but I’m pretty sure it does. If it doesn’t, it should, and I’d report it if that’s what you want.
I have a hard time imagining having a way to always have the world map start at the same time no matter where you start from. Plus, I’m pretty sure eventually, they picture the World Map interface to allow you to do real flight planning, as if you were doing it in the real world (hence, it’s basis in UTC time).
Okay, YOU are starting to make sense to me.
But… there’s always a but … 
But, even if I am in Philadelphia, PA USA, and I decide to fly from
a Hawaii Airport, I would think that a preprogrammed (Custom)
setting would put me at 1:00PM Hawaii time and not some UTC time.
As you already know, my brain does not work very well.
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