METARs are from yesterday when in-sim time > real time

[Raniel3]

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
When I set the in-sim time to a time in the future (e.g. one or two hours in the future or more), the EFB Metars will use yesterdays METAR at that time of day instead of the most current one from real time. It seems to look only for the zulu time and not for the zulu day in the METARs.

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1. Example: Now it’s 27th of November 2000z in real life. I fly in the sim at 27th of November 2200z (so 2 hours in the future).
2. EFB METARs will however be from the 26th (!) of November 2200z.
   3.Correct would be the METAR from 27th of November 2000z (the most current one)

so to reproduce set an in-sim time in the future and look at the EFB Metars and check the DATE

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[CopperNu]

This is already a known issue and covered in this thread:

Make Historical Weather Optional

Even before the 2024 release I was worried about the announced 24hr historical weather. Let me make clear, I think this a great feature that many people will use and enjoy, it just requires careful implementation. The time used in the sim needs to be able to be separated from the weather, for example, say its is 1900z and one sets the sim to be at 1200z, one needs the option to be able to keep current live weather i.e. 1900z weather, as well as the option for using the historical i.e. 1200z we…

The sim uses the weather based on the time (not date) in the past 24 hours. While this rewind-feature was intentional on the “Live” settings (and it’s showing visually there), it seems to be a bug in the “Custom” setup where time and weather should be independent.
Please vote and contribute in the linked thread

[Raniel3]

If this would solve this issue right here, too, then I’m all in. So the METAR reports should in this case be coupled to the “weather-time” in your case, right?