Scenario Time question

[Ole "Slim Jolo" the Hobo Hero]

In editor, I'm wondering how to properly get time of day to work,

I'm not sure where the center of the map for a scenario should be placed to properly reflect time of day

For example, in the scenario I was playing around making in editor, which was basically a small skirmish between a USA / NATO surface group vs a small group of 4 Soviet Missile Cruisers / Destroyer kind of among the Greek islands, if I made the 'center' of the map kind of around Ankara in Turkey and used 'local time' option, set time of day for about 3 or 4 am for night-ops kind of, the games time would be set at 1 AM when you start, but sun would be coming up by 2:30 kind of thing

If I didn't use local time, sun would already BE up at 4 am, etc

Should the 'center' of the map be based on where the scenario is happening for Lat / Long options? Should it be left where it is natively in first place, though 'local time' option still didn't seem to work and give me night ops, etc?

[joetrusty2020]

Good question . . . I have the timeline from "Dance of Vampires" where the center of the map is already located near the scenario location. I will check and get back with you.

[joetrusty2020]

Okay, I set the time for 0310 local (June) with the default map center location in the North Atlantic, and the sky is almost completely dark. By 0400 local, it looks like the red, nautical twilight sky at the beginning of TOP GUN. When it was 0600 local, it looked like a bright daytime.

I also tried Reykjavik, and it seems to be in the borderline area when adjusting the map center location. At 0200 local in mid-June, it should be dark, but the sun is a couple degrees above the horizon, and so either Sea Power or the sunrise website is in error.

There are some websites that let you simulate the time of day, time of year, and sun location. For Athens, sunrise in mid-June appears to be about 0615 local. Sunrise at Ankara is about 0530, but sunrise will be closer to 0600 Ankara time in the Aegean Sea. Hopefully these baselines will help you figure the better map center location and whether this is an operational bug to report.

[Ole "Slim Jolo" the Hobo Hero]

Originally posted by joetrusty2020:

There are some websites that let you simulate the time of day, time of year, and sun location. For Athens, sunrise in mid-June appears to be about 0615 local. Sunrise at Ankara is about 0530, but sunrise will be closer to 0600 Ankara time in the Aegean Sea. Hopefully these baselines will help you figure the better map center location and whether this is an operational bug to report.

Yea, this is why I was trying and knew at least for the Adriatic that sunrise should be coming up come 6ish, which is why I was annoyed that the options I was trying kept seeing the sun coming up around 3-ish.

But I figure too it's probably just me misunderstanding how the 'center of the map' tool is supposed to be used, not necessarily a bug, but then even moving it around and such I'm still failing to get the time results I'm wanting :p

But will play around with s'more and see if I figure it out