Sunrise/sunser

[bprice]

Is there any way to adjust the sunrise and sunset times manually?

I understand the SR/SS times are based on the season and the location of the route but I noticed that the times were not accurate for the particular location. The route I was working is set in Central Kansas. The actual Sunset time for early July is 6AM (06:00)and Sunset is 9PM (21:00) (Times based on daylight savings time.) The ORTS simulator set for Summer has the sun setting at 7PM and rising at 4:12AM.

The ability to set the sunrise and sunset manually would be beneficial especially in passenger activities where a timetable is followed and to adjust for daylight savings time. Perhaps an option tab allowing for automatic settings or manual settings might be a way of addressing this.

If there is a way of doing this manually, I haven't figured it out.

Thank you.

Basil

[apco25]

Now what would be really neat is if the dev's could code OR to access a time/date server (they are out there) to display the correct sunrise and sunset data for any day of the year and adjust the lighting effects to match.

[muskokaandtahoe]

IIRC, the initial version of the software that handled sunrise/sunset was defined to be correct for some location in Wisconsin (no idea why). I don't know if that was ever changed and the person who wrote that code is no longer involved w/ the project.

Now that the source code has been released I suppose anyone can poke around in the source code to find out what's really going on now.