Custom/Live time remains still when set in the weather menu

[GTRYSHER]

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: I start the flight and set custom time when flight is loaded. Time remains still. Let’s say I set time 10:00 and start my startup procedure. After a few minutes the time is still 10:00. Weather and daylight conditions are not changing as well. Custom time can be set before loading the flight or during the flight. Doesn’t matter. The custom time stops working when I simply go to the weather menu.

Weather: Live or custom. Doesn’t matter.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you: every single time I go to the weather menu

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

1. Set free flight and set custom time

2. As soon as the flight is loaded go to the weather menu

3. Now notice the custom time is not working anymore. It stops.

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using:

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? NO

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? 5080

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share? Ryzen 3960x, DDR64gb

MEDIA

Please add a screenshot or video of the issue occurring.

[GTRYSHER]

As soon as I go to this menu the custom time you set stops working. I mean just wait for like 5 minutes and open this weather menu again. You will see the same 10:00.

[GTRYSHER]

I found sort of a workaround.

1. You need to set custom time BEFORE starting the flight. I mean on global map.
2. Do not go the weather menu. I mean the menu I showed in my previous message. As soon as you go to the weather menu the time freezes and stops working.

[DementedCorn327]

Can replicate.

[GTRYSHER]

@GTRYSHER

I found sort of a workaround.

Today I noticed that setting custom time before the flight is not really a workaround. I had 90-minute flight today and the time was completely still from start to finish.

[GTRYSHER]

Here is good and obvious demonstration of the custom time glitch. Piper Arrow has clock on its yoke. I set custom time BEFORE the flight to 17:00 and started a flight.

After 8 minutes of flying I checked the time:

After another 20 minutes:

So, the custom time is basically stands still the entire flight. Position of the sun is not changing as well.

It’s a crucial glitch to my opinion.

[coolgatz3243]

I have had this issue! This happens EVERY single flight that I fly. I noticed, if you open the settings (or just press escape) and return to the simulator, the time would jump to how long it has been since flying. So in your case, if you were to go into the menu and back the time in the simulator would be 17:27, but it will remain stuck until you open the menu again.

I use MSFS on the xbox store (PC)

[CaptainAB2020]

Same here, time stopped in weather and had to move it back to the time showing on the plane clock

[coolgatz3243]

How often does it occur for you? I have not found a fix yet

[GTRYSHER]

Happens all the time. The only workaround is to avoid clicking on weather menu during the flight.

[coolgatz3243]

Does the time actually continue normally if you don’t open it?

[GTRYSHER]

Yes, it is.

[coolgatz3243]

Yah I just tried it. So now the bug is if you open the weather menu the time freezes

[MajorAlan70]

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: The time clock does not update in the time management window.

Weather: Live Weather (Not relevant)

REPRODUCTION STEPS

1. Configure the time schedule with a delay relative to real time

2. Launch a flight or simply let time pass

3. Note that the value of the window clock has not changed.

YOUR SETTINGS

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? NO

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? NVIDIA RTX 5090

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share? 64GB RAM

MEDIA

Live Real Time is 03:51 LOCAL / 13:51 UTC

I set time to get local with 14:52 and I close the windows

7 minutes later it is still 14:52 :

If I look at the schedule on the tablet (PMDG 77W), the schedule is correct :

[Chewwy94]

Thank you for the bug report.

We have created an internal ticket to see if our team already has this logged, and if not they will attempt to reproduce the issue and create a new bug report. This item is now marked as feedback-logged. If there is an existing bug report or one is created, we will move this thread to bug-logged.

[Chewwy94]

Hi folks,

This topic has now been changed from feedback-logged to bug-logged after successful reproductions by our testing team.

Thanks for your help in identifying this issue!
The MSFS Team

[XxXCrazyDaneXxX]

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

When I choose live time in the menu prior to loading in, it will not update as time goes by in real life leading to custom time being selected when loading in. This problem only occurred after the update to SU4.

Weather: Live

This issue does not occur if I can manage to select live time and spawn in within the same minute, then live time will work as expected.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

Every time.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

1. Select live time in menu, and wait for the minute to tick over in real life.

2. Spawn in

3. See that the sim is now set to whatever the time was when you enabled live time in the menu instead of live time as it should be.

YOUR SETTINGS

What peripherals are you using:

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?

No

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?

RX 7800 XT

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?

7800X3D, Gigabit connection,

MEDIA

Note:

My local time is CET, hence the one hour difference from UTC in the screenshots.

[LorranHonorato]

I realized that using a time accelerator to make time pass faster, the local time doesn’t match the time zone; I believe it’s the same mechanism.

[speedbird217]

Yup! Weather/METAR time always stays at 1x - even when flying with sim rate 8x. It’s completely immersion breaking on long haul flights when using sim rate, as the weather/METAR at destination is many hours behind the sim time that moved with 8x etc.

I landed at CYVR last night coming from EGLL. Arrival time per sim was 00:25 UTC, yet the METAR per EFB was still showing 1500z.

It’s been reported many times but I haven’t seen it acknowledged by the devs as a bug yet. Would be nice to at least hear it’s on their radar as I can replicate it 100% of the time.