Problem Real Time Scenario

[Kinga]

Hi guys, long time since I've been in the Orbiter Forums. I have recently installed Orbiter on a Vista machine and I have created a custom scenario that I wanted to always be real time so I set Date MJD ;

However when I enter the scenario, the UT time is 8 hours into the future from now. My time zone is Melbourne Australia and UT time should be yesterday 11 hours ago. So something is wrong.

Also, can I get the clock to display in Local time? Pretty sure I used to be able to do this but I don't have my previous installation with the custom scenario handy at this point.

Any help would be appreciated

Kinga

 

[TSPenguin]

to the forum!

I don't know about using timezones, but you should be able to get the scenario to always run at current time by removing the date line from the scenario all-together.

Happy Orbiting

 

[Kinga]

thanks TS. I did try that but get the same result. My current local time is 11:40am but Orbiter thinks it's 19:40 UT and is rendering it as night time.

not sure what the prob could be. either Orbiter is incorrectly calculating UT or somehow it is misreading Vista's clock I think

 

[agentgonzo]

thanks TS. I did try that but get the same result. My current local time is 11:40am but Orbiter thinks it's 19:40 UT and is rendering it as night time.

not sure what the prob could be. either Orbiter is incorrectly calculating UT or somehow it is misreading Vista's clock I think

It may be worth checking that you have the timezone for your computer set up correctly. No-one has mentioned this problem before so I'm assuming that there is a problem somewhere in your setup, somehow.

I don't think that it's possible to get orbiter to display the time in your local timezone. I think that it always displays UTC (handy for us Brits).

 

[Kinga]

thanks. Checked that and it 'appears' to be ok but I'm not that familiar with Vista's way of setting time zone. That is what I thought too, that it must think I'm in a different time zone (though the local time on the task bar is correct). We bought and originally set up the laptop in the US so it makes sense that it might be out of sync in some way.

I'll do a bit more research on Vista and time zones and see what I can find.

---------- Post added 11-07-09 at 01:26 AM ---------- Previous post was 11-06-09 at 09:33 PM ----------

yep that's exactly what it was, wrong time zone. Once I'd changed that and reset the date, clock, I now have correct current time in my scenario.

Thanks to both of you for the help