with MSFS 24 there will be 24 hrs historical weather.
I might take a look at that.
Hey! Why isn’t setting the year in the time setting in both MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024 earlier than 1990 enabled right now?
Probably because everyone except you appreciates it would be completely pointless.
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You mean most people.
Unfortunately there’s just no weather data for the sim to use back then, so best you could do is look up some historical news or forecast about the area and then recreate it as best you can using the custom weather menu. The sim actually only has historic weather data for the last 24hrs, which is pretty awesome considering 2020 only had live weather for the current moment.
The only thing that would really change in the sim if you could set it back to something like the 1930s with today’s date would be that the sun position would barely be different and the moon position would be significantly different.
But if you want to get that historically accurate moon position (for example, the night air invasion of normandy just after midnight June 6th 1944), you can actually calculate out the moons position to find other dates where the sun and moon position is nearly exactly the same as that historical date.
There are maybe online tools that already do this, but I coded one myself pretty quickly with the help of chatgpt in a JavaScript playground and it looks like it works. It finds dates after 1991 where the sun and moon are roughly in the same position for any historic date.
I will try that later.
So the weather is of importance to you, but the fact that the scenery would look nothing like the 1930’s is not?
Not just the weather, I also want the time setting earlier than 1990.
Just pretend it’s 1930. Believe me, you won’t know the difference. 