Map Time zone in mission editor

[TJTAS]

Can anyone tell me how a map deals with time and the appropriate time zones?. It seems when you adjust the date time the location is listed in the dialog. This position seems somewhat arbitrary. The 2 I have looked at so far (Kola and SA maps) Kola has the time point set at one of the islands along the north coast The sun passes the meridian at 13:30 roughly Implying the map meridian is around 22 degrees east of this location. SA has its time origin in the sea between the Falkland islands and the coast of Chile. It's geographical location is -64 degrees longitude (about 4.3 hours east of prime meridian). Looking at the sun moon diagram the sun crosses the local meridian at 13:20 map time. Implying the map meridian is at -3 hours UTC(-45 degrees).

Edited May 20, 2024 by TJTAS
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[TEMPEST.114]

It's hard coded in a lua. 

It's a PITA. 

You have to hunt for it if you want to be able to access it. 

Personally, I just went into each map, noted the offset from zulu and made my own lua look up function with the hard coded values. Not great, but works. 

Edited May 20, 2024 by TEMPEST.114

[winghunter]

It seems like DCS is using a single time zone per map, regardless of where you spawn. For Caucasus, the offset is 4 hours.

( Which you cannot simply calculate from longitude, because 33 / 15 results in 2 hours offset. )