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Hook · 06-14-10, 02:29 PM

I tried tracking the times of the sun and moon rising and setting, and I finally gave up because I couldn't make any sense of it at all. While you see such things as the moon moving properly against the stars, the next night it might start in the same place as it did on the previous night, and follow the same track over and over instead of advancing.

The sunrise and sunset times seem to be generally reasonable, although I don't know how accurate they are. But I did once see the sun set at 12:15 on the clock at compass direction 238 degrees somewhere near England, meaning the local time couldn't have been more than an hour away from the clock time. Edit: the date was November 28, 1939.

My best guess is that some combination of running long periods of 1x time and occasional shorter periods of 64x, 256x and 1024x, along with saving the game and reloading, has confused the astronomical clock.

Hook

06-14-10, 02:29 PM	#10
Hook Bosun Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 63 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I tried tracking the times of the sun and moon rising and setting, and I finally gave up because I couldn't make any sense of it at all. While you see such things as the moon moving properly against the stars, the next night it might start in the same place as it did on the previous night, and follow the same track over and over instead of advancing. The sunrise and sunset times seem to be generally reasonable, although I don't know how accurate they are. But I did once see the sun set at 12:15 on the clock at compass direction 238 degrees somewhere near England, meaning the local time couldn't have been more than an hour away from the clock time. Edit: the date was November 28, 1939. My best guess is that some combination of running long periods of 1x time and occasional shorter periods of 64x, 256x and 1024x, along with saving the game and reloading, has confused the astronomical clock. Hook