Ignoring Observer's response for the moment.
Bluntly, too much manual tinkering and playing around has exacerbated the problem. Further, if at any stage you *commenced* patrol 6, you're at the whim of SH3's date "rollback" if you subsequently delete the saved game and go back to the last "in base" save.
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Originally Posted by Ginger Beer
I think what I'll do is uninstall SH3 Commander, reinstall the back up copy of my career folder, change the end patrol date to 15th Feb, manually edit the NbDaysInBase to 14 days, then install SH3 Commander again and set the number of days in base to 14, so matching the manually edited value. Clearly, the number of days in base value selected in SH3 Commander doesn't come into effect till after you return from the first SH3 Commander-launched patrol ( Read that carefully, it does make sense
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1. You do not need to uninstall/reinstall SH3Cmdr, unless you are running release 2.1 or earlier, in which case you should download release 2.2 and install it (doesn't appear to be the case here anyway).
2. Restore your career to its pre-tinkered state. Do *not* manually change *anything*.
3. Run SH3Cmdr. If the current career date shows as after 1 Mar 1942, no matter what you do, SH3Cmdr will *not* give you a 1 Mar 1942 start date (this ain't the Final Countdown
). There is one exception, which as it will take more than 20 words to explain, I will leave to later if required (gives me time to figure out how to explain it!
).
4. Don't forget that starting patrols, even if you later delete the save game, will force SH3 to write the patrol start date as the current career date, which is what has already happened in your case.
So, reloading your "clean" career in SH3Cmdr, if the current career date shows as less than 1 Mar 1942, set the days in base value to be the difference between 1 Mar 1942 and the last patrol end date. Unless you have at some stage already commenced the patrol and exited, you should find that you will end up in the sub on the date you expect.
I won't go down any other other route until you advise how you went with this.
But, I can say, I just tested four times with similar circumstances to yours and got the expected date every time. Only once did the date differ to what I expected, and that was not an SH3Cmdr problem: it was because of the SH3 "exception" I mention above. The patrol start date was, however, the correct date when I realised what SH3 was doing.
Anyway, if you are still having problems, pls email me your unmodified career files, including the save files, and I'll have a look.