UTC Time Zone Incorrect

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Hello, I live in Texas, It is currently 2:34 on this screenshot that I took, yet on my simbreif it shows that it’s 19:34. It’s like this on my desktop PC and on my iPhone (I took the Screenshot on my phone). How do I fix this and is there even a way to fix this issue?

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UTC is Universal Coordinated Time and is the same all over the world. It is NOT local time.

Regards,

Tim

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Oh okay, could this be changed in the future, because when I make my flight, I have to make it based off of that time and it’s really inconvenient in my opinion

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Hi…,

Flight planning and flying in general is done in Universal Coordinated Time (sometimes referred to as Zulu Time) deliberately to avoid the issues of different time zones. Most aircraft have cockpit clocks set to UTC. Try looking at a panel clock in your flight sim with the flight sim time set to real time.

You might like to add UTC to your Windows Clock (bottom right of screen) so you have UTC ready and can see how UTC compares to your local time.

In SimBrief you can vary the EOBT (Estimated Off-Block Time), but it needs to be entered in UTC/Zulu time.

Cheers
Ian

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I think with that this should be fixed and that it should go with location like I said my time on my pc and phone aren’t wrong yet on sim brief the time is completely wrong. You should make it so that people that use sim brief can select what state they are in, and based off that, that should be the set time for that person

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I respectfully disagree.

This is rather important IMO.

Regards,

Tim

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And if you fly from Texas to say California, what time zones do you expect to see in the Operational Flight Plan for Texas - Central Time Zone, Mountain Time zone for Northwestern Culberson County? What time zone for California Pacific Standard Time? What about when daylight saving changes these?

How about Texas to say Germany - Central European Time Zone or Central European Summer Time Zone?

UTC eliminates all this potential confusion. Everyone including interstate and international ATC and pilots know from your flight plan what time you planned for.

It isn’t a matter of fixing it, UTC is the real world time zone used for flight planning. You may need to translate the departure time to your local time as I have suggested above.

Cheers
Ian

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