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rciandes

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How to set the time? (Not as in the speed of it)
« on: March 20, 2012, 01:17:14 AM »
I am wondering if there is a way to set the time to a specific date on my simulation. For instance, instead of having it say 1678.329032 years. is there a way I can set it to something different to say "2000-01-03 12:00 am"? It would be really nice to have this feature. Since I see that it is set for the simulation "Our Solar System" why not be able to set it for your own system?

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Re: How to set the time? (Not as in the speed of it)
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2012, 07:53:20 AM »
No what he means is to change the time format so that instead of 1678.329032 years, it would be 1678-02-27 7:18pm or something.

rciandes

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Re: How to set the time? (Not as in the speed of it)
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2012, 12:25:27 PM »
Yes, I actually figured it out. you need to convert your ubox file into an xml file and edit the settings file and place "yyyy-mm-dd 00:00.000" you have to put numbers in where y, m, and d are and this is edited where the <date> </date> is. Then you save and convert the xml file or files, back into a ubox file. Pretty simple ^^

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Re: How to set the time? (Not as in the speed of it)
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2012, 03:39:31 PM »
Yep. That's how you do it. Sorry that's the only way right now. We're working to make this kind of things easier in the new version.

rciandes

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Re: How to set the time? (Not as in the speed of it)
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2012, 03:54:31 PM »
Ya, I noticed that when you go backwards in time the years go negative and weird things start to happen to the time.