known western hemisphere issue Datalink group members not working?

[Robin_Hood]

I would like to submit this simple mission and multiplayer track where the following behavior occurs:

Initial conditions:

- There is a ME-defined flight of 2 client F/A-18C and an E-2D Hawkeye

- Both F/A-18C are defaulted to the same MEMBER Datalink group

Behavior:

- At mission start, I can initially see the other Hornet as the "B" flight member on the datalink

- A few seconds later, he disappears and is replaced with a simple datalink contact from the AWACS, instead of a member or donor or even a party to the Datalink net

The track file and the mission file is attached ; if I have missed something, please let me know

Note: this is a very simple case that I made after seeing the problem in more complex cases (user-defined groups, custom VCS and TN, etc...)

Datalink_multiplayer_test.trk test_DL.miz

[rob10]

Datalink in MP seems to be inconsistently flaky.  Haven't found conditions that cause it, but I've see D/L appear and disappear over time.

[Spock14]

I think there is a problem, if the Zulu time is on another date than the local time, or changes date during the mission, the Datalink will not work correctly. 
i only noticed that at Marinas and it seems to be a known problem.

[Robin_Hood]

Interesting, I'll try different times and maps, but I'm pretty sure it worked alright a few weeks ago; now that I think about it, I have changed the mission start time some time ago, maybe it placed it at a different date then.

I'll investigate

[Lekaa]

Any work in progress fix on this? 

Edited April 12, 2024 by Lekaa

[Lekaa]

On 2/19/2024 at 12:21 PM, Robin_Hood said:

Interesting, I'll try different times and maps, but I'm pretty sure it worked alright a few weeks ago; now that I think about it, I have changed the mission start time some time ago, maybe it placed it at a different date then.

I'll investigate

did you find the culprit for this behaviour?