Time of Day Broken

Caption Ranker · 05-06-14, 08:16 PM

Hello everybody.

I'm having a strange problem in my Silent Hunter 4 game where the time of Day seems to be all wrong. No matter what time of year it is, it seems like the sun doesn't even come up until around 10:00AM, and when it dose come up 10AM ends up looking like 6AM.

I don't know why this is happening, and it happens if mods are enabled or not so I'm not really sure what to do.

Any help?

razark · 05-06-14, 08:25 PM

I'm guessing you're about four timezones west of your home port.

The game doesn't take into account timezones. If you leave from Pearl Harbor and patrol off Japan, you'll end up with the sun not matching the clock.

Caption Ranker · 05-06-14, 08:28 PM

Oh, that makes a lot of sense... thank you very much. Too bad their isn't a way to adjust time for timezones, that was driving me nuts.

fireftr18 · 05-06-14, 08:50 PM

The clock stays on home base time. I remember reading somewhere that it's historically accurate.

BigWalleye · 05-06-14, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by fireftr18

The clock stays on home base time. I remember reading somewhere that it's historically accurate.

IIRC, it was at the captain's discretion. I seem to recall O'Kane (I think) mentioning that one of the boats in a wolf-pack was on Pearl time and another was local. Added another layer of confusion.

Admiral Halsey · 05-06-14, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by fireftr18

The clock stays on home base time. I remember reading somewhere that it's historically accurate.

Makes me wish the kept the clock of SH3 where it not only gave you home port time but also local time.

ETR3(SS) · 05-07-14, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by BigWalleye

IIRC, it was at the captain's discretion. I seem to recall O'Kane (I think) mentioning that one of the boats in a wolf-pack was on Pearl time and another was local. Added another layer of confusion.

I think that was part of the reasoning of shifting to GMT or Zulu

05-06-14, 08:16 PM	#1
Caption Ranker Watch Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 15 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Time of Day Broken Hello everybody. I'm having a strange problem in my Silent Hunter 4 game where the time of Day seems to be all wrong. No matter what time of year it is, it seems like the sun doesn't even come up until around 10:00AM, and when it dose come up 10AM ends up looking like 6AM. I don't know why this is happening, and it happens if mods are enabled or not so I'm not really sure what to do. Any help?

05-06-14, 08:25 PM	#2
razark Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,731 Downloads: 393 Uploads: 12	I'm guessing you're about four timezones west of your home port. The game doesn't take into account timezones. If you leave from Pearl Harbor and patrol off Japan, you'll end up with the sun not matching the clock. __________________ "Never ask a World War II history buff for a 'final solution' to your problem!"

05-06-14, 08:28 PM	#3
Caption Ranker Watch Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 15 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Oh, that makes a lot of sense... thank you very much. Too bad their isn't a way to adjust time for timezones, that was driving me nuts.

05-06-14, 08:50 PM	#4
fireftr18 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Kentucky Posts: 2,528 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 0	The clock stays on home base time. I remember reading somewhere that it's historically accurate.