I completed a flight in Tasmania, Australia today and as I was landing in Hobart (sim time 5:30pm local) I noticed it seemed like the sun was too low in the sky. So after landing I manually changed the time slider in the weather window and in the sim the sun seemed to set around 6:15pm. The actual sunset time for Hobart today, 7th November is 8:03pm. An hour and a half out, what the??? Has Asobo got the size of the earth wrong?
I thought of posting this here because I wanted to see this corrected for MSFS 2024.
Some regions in the sim have time zones that do not match with their real life counterparts. These are some of the regions I found in sim that do not match up with real life (either incorrect time zone, or incorrect DST dates) from west to east. DST Dates are taken into account in this list.
Ah could be, but DST is 1 hour and and sunset seemed to be off by about 1.5 hours. Also the time zone is completely incorrect, flying from one part of Tasmania to another and the time changes by 2 hours where in real life its all one time zone.
@Neo4316 It seems the game does have DST, at least for London the UTC and live time are the same. In summer it showed an hour difference between the two.
We just changed back to winter time (a week later as Ontario didn’t want to ever use winter time again, but NY and Quebec do. The stock market is more important than what the majority wants. Dark at 5pm now ugh) and the game has that right. If I change the date backwards, the time change shows between November 6 and 7.
Time zones in certain parts of the world are incorrect. My main example is on the island of Tasmania in Australia. All of Tasmania is UTC+10 IRL. In MSFS, the eastern part of the island is UTC+10, but the north and western parts are UTC+8.5, which is not right. There are other parts of Australia where time zones are incorrect as well. Notably North Queensland.
The timezone boundaries are wrong in most areas of the world. They seem to be right in Europe and North America only. For example, landed in Hoton, China, where the time should be UTC+8 as it is in all China mainland. Instead the sim has it as UTC+6! It would seem that this issue is important to the realism in the sim. Rather than updates concentrating on scenery items, perhaps more emphasis on improving the realism as was originally promised.
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Brief description of the issue:
When flying in Launceston, Australia, the calculation of local time vs UTC time is incorrect.
The UTC time is 00:18, and the corresponding local time should be 11:18. Instead it is 09:18. A 2 hour difference!
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Not really true. India uses a half hour time zone (+5.5), and so does Australia’s Northern Territory and South Australia (which are both +9.5, with South Australia at +10.5 in DST). Those are correct in sim. Additionally, it doesn’t make sense for Arizona to observe DST when Saskatchewan doesn’t in sim.
Those other two on the other hand (Madeira and Arizona) are incorrect. They show -2 and -6 respectively when Madeira should be the same as mainland Portugal at 0 or +1 if DST, and Arizona doesn’t observe DST at all, thus should be -7 all year round.
Parts of Tasmania Australia are incorrect, whole island should be AEST which is UTC +10. Currently in MSFS the east half of the island is correct, but the north and west is UTC +8.5
Thanks for telling me about Tasmania. When I looked at my sim, the entire island is +9 rather than +8.5 for the north and the west of the island. Either way, I added Tasmania to the list above.
BTW, I looked at the Canaries again. It’s directly south of Madeira and share the same time zone in real life. Surprisingly, they have the correct time zone of +1 (in DST). So the Canaries get to have the right time zone but Madeira and Porto Santo are off by two or three hours in sim compared to the real world.
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check time zone in Armenia and then Greece. I did a flight from Yerevan to Athens - departed UDYZ on 00:20 UTC and reached TOD near LGAV at 23:57 UTC. Time zones are messed up!
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