How to know what time it is?
 

Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question, but is there any way on board my sub to indicate what time of day (local) it is? I see "base time" and I realize I'm several time zones off as I go west, but is there a way to set local or GMT time time in SH4?

Alternatively, I suppose I could find a chart online that shows time zones.. I was hoping for a clock in the game.

No there isn't... base time is what you're stuck with

SH3 had a Local Time function. They "fixed" it for SH4. Praise to you, jscharpf, for figuring it out. Most players (and there are a lot) just come in with "Why is the sun going down at 1300 hours?"

The US Naval Observatory website will provide charts of sunrise/sunset, moonrise/moonset, and beginning and end of nautical twilight for any lat/lon you specify, for each day of any calendar year you specify. And the times will be adjusted to whatever time zone you specify. So, for example, you can get a chart of sunrise/sunset times for Bungo Suido for 1943 with times shown in Honolulu Time. Copy/paste the chart to a text editor and print it out.

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.php

I find these charts very useful.

Just do the math ... it isn't that hard.

I never pay attention to what time it is.

I am curious what time zone is used for the times in the mission editor; GMT?

Thanks everyone, yes I understand that I can just do the math. I used to have a printed map of the world with all of the time zones relevant to Zulu. I think it was for FSX lol..
Anyway I was just hoping the game had a way to "set" the clock. :)

No big deal.

I was wondering about this too. If AI subs were to be scripted into a campaign, it would make sense to do it according to local day/night times.

I haven't played SH4 in awhile, but I'm pretty sure it's Base time, i.e. your home port.

But there's no base on the campaign layer

Does anyone know what was used by the boats during the war?

Did they all use one standard (Pearl? GMT?) Did they set their clocks to the base they started from? I imagine that changing time zones would make using "local" time problematic for coordination with other units, not to mention log-keeping.

I think I was saying what I remember from playing the game years ago. I have no clue how it actually works, just what I thought I remembered.

Here's one for you: In SH3 the time of day you started your patrol was randomized. In SH4 it's always exactly the same time - I think 1100 hours. Why is that?

I started my last patrol at midnight...