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06-24-07, 07:44 AM

This is getting interesting, don1reed I really appreciate your posting!

I was trying to calculate longitude and I'm confused. My current position would be a little west from Reykjavik approach and from Encarta it looks like 64°15N 22°50W. Latitude fits very nice as usual however I had to measure Polaris to a star below and from that star to the horizon, it worked perfectly. Now:

longitude = (game sunrise @ 8:34 28 Feb 41) - (gmt @ 7:03) / 4 = 22,75° = 22°45W

So it's veeeery accurate. But if we consider stupid clock behavior mentioned by Van... doesn't make any sense. Maybe this is another game version/mod issue? My clock looks like gmt, local time -2, I'll try to check every other SR/SS. Unfortunately I didn't take time notes before saving/loading...

06-24-07, 07:44 AM	#54
Hadrys Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	This is getting interesting, don1reed I really appreciate your posting! I was trying to calculate longitude and I'm confused. My current position would be a little west from Reykjavik approach and from Encarta it looks like 64°15N 22°50W. Latitude fits very nice as usual however I had to measure Polaris to a star below and from that star to the horizon, it worked perfectly. Now: longitude = (game sunrise @ 8:34 28 Feb 41) - (gmt @ 7:03) / 4 = 22,75° = 22°45W So it's veeeery accurate. But if we consider stupid clock behavior mentioned by Van... doesn't make any sense. Maybe this is another game version/mod issue? My clock looks like gmt, local time -2, I'll try to check every other SR/SS. Unfortunately I didn't take time notes before saving/loading...