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I am perplexed at the dates I am seeing after flying today. My last flight is logged as March 30th, today being April 3rd, and I was chatting with fellow CVA'er CVA582 Gary Anderson today as we both flew into CYYZ and noticed his flight was logged as the 28th of April. What's up with that? :oops:

Where does FSACARS get it's date information? My system date is April 3rd. ???



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I just flew Halifax - Montreal and the date is correct. There seems to be some weird data bugs sometimes, I'm starting to keep a copy of all my logs from now on.

EDIT: Ah, just noticed you said "his date", maybe his PC is not on the right date?



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I am perplexed at the dates I am seeing after flying today. My last flight is logged as March 30th, today being April 3rd, and I was chatting with fellow CVA'er CVA582 Gary Anderson today as we both flew into CYYZ and noticed his flight was logged as the 28th of April. What's up with that? :oops:

Where does FSACARS get it's date information? My system date is April 3rd. ???

I believe FSAcars gets it's date / time information from FS itself. So...if you set your date / time different then your flight will record with that information.

Chuck or Frank I think have played with this a bit and can likely chime in here. Cal jordan as well probably has further info.

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have noticed my dates are usually correct but the times are several hours off (the enroute times are ok - just the blockoff/on times)

i usually time sych my FSCopilot to correct local/zulu time just prior to engaging FSACARS so seems to be a bit strange -- no biggie



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kgreenwood wrote:
have noticed my dates are usually correct but the times are several hours off (the enroute times are ok - just the blockoff/on times)

i usually time sych my FSCopilot to correct local/zulu time just prior to engaging FSACARS so seems to be a bit strange -- no biggie

I'm almost positive there is an option in FSAcars for choosing to use Local time..a setting somewhere...will need to dig a little further into it and get back to folks. On the road at the moment...

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I have found that it seems FS controls the time but addons
Seem to throw their 2 cents in also. I have been trying to
Fly over the date line, some times it works, the next time
It won't. Fsuicp, and all add- ons that use time seem to try
and control FS. I have found for some flights fsacars
will set the time. Try setting your FS to night, then set
fsacars to an afternoon flight at mine changes the FS time
when you click okay in the fsacars program.

I am also away from home and missing FS



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Man this forum is great. So many replies since I posted. Keep em coming! I'll take note of dates and times in FS when I fly next and see what I get. Thanks guys. :cool:



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Another member brought up this suggestion a while back and I heeded the advise.

I now use FS Real Time on all my flights. The software is free to start and by donation to have registered.


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FS Time works good until you fly across the Date LIne and see the big "-24" in FSACARS



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Okay, I flew today. I loaded a saved flight with my plane ready at the Canadian terminal in Toronto. I flew my flight and it got logged as March 28th. I suppose FSACARS gets it's date info from flight sim then. I will have to remember to set the date every time I fly. I hate having to taxi around the airport to get set up every time, hence the saved flight. Now I know. :)



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My FS-X time got sent back to 4pm tonight for some reason?

I've moved it back up, Use System Time was toggled, so not sure what's going on.



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It just did it again, I set it in the options to local time (it was off a bit) and took off from Ottawa. Within a fwe minutes in the air I noticed that it was already 1.5 hours off.

At least FSacars continues to report proper time in my case.



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I've noticed that at this time of year, FSX time is off an hour in many places because it still thinks Daylight Savings Time starts in April. When you set your time in FSX I always make sure to set the GMT time and not local time.



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One thing to make sure is that you set the date / time and fuel load in FS before starting FSAcars. Some people in the past have changed this information once they are sitting at the gate and FSAcars is already running and I believe this has also caused some grief. Just want to be sure we are all on the same page here...

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I had initially set my date/time to local time when I first installed, haven't done anything except double-check when I saw this thread.

And then I got contaminated because my post was in proximity to Paul's. :D



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