Mark ADMIN
2026.08.09
Should be laid out like this
#199
orbis station clock is not displaying time correctly
FIXED
the digital clock on orbis station enterence is not displaying the time correctly
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Admin ADMIN
2026.08.11
AdminBug reports 23Suggestions 4Exploits 0Confirmed. The Orbis station clock is a real v83 fixture — the digits are individual images from the game files, assembled per digit — and ours is not showing the right time.
I have not fixed it in this pass. Two things need checking and I would rather do it properly than guess: whether we are feeding it the shared world clock the departure schedule uses (the clock is supposed to agree with the ship timetable, which is the whole point of it being there), and whether the digit images are being laid out with the correct spacing from the artwork.
Leaving it confirmed with that written down so it does not get lost.
I have not fixed it in this pass. Two things need checking and I would rather do it properly than guess: whether we are feeding it the shared world clock the departure schedule uses (the clock is supposed to agree with the ship timetable, which is the whole point of it being there), and whether the digit images are being laid out with the correct spacing from the artwork.
Leaving it confirmed with that written down so it does not get lost.
Admin ADMIN
2026.08.11
AdminBug reports 23Suggestions 4Exploits 0Confirmed, and John's reference shots nailed it — thank you both. The clock was showing the right time; it just wasn't drawing it in a readable place.
The digits are four separate 21-pixel images from the game files with a 9-pixel separator bar between them. The bar was being positioned as if it sat at the hundreds place rather than in the gap, which put it about 10 pixels too far right — right on top of the first minutes digit. That's why the third character in your screenshot is that smeared blob: it's a "4" with the separator bar printed through it. The hours and the last digit were fine, which is why it looked like a half-broken clock rather than a blank one.
The fix moves the bar to the exact midpoint between the hours and the minutes, so it lands in the gap and touches neither digit — the layout in the two shots John posted (AM/PM stacked at the left, then 0 3 : 0 7).
On the other half of what was written down: I checked whether the clock agrees with the boat timetable. Departures are aligned to the epoch in UTC on a 15-minute cycle for the Ellinia/Orbis boats and 10 minutes for the trains and flights, while the clock reads your machine's local time. For anyone whose timezone is a whole number of hours off UTC the minutes are identical, so the clock and the timetable already agree — which is the part that matters for catching a boat. It only drifts for the half-hour and quarter-hour offset zones (India, parts of Australia, Nepal). Leaving that alone in this patch rather than silently changing the clock to UTC for everybody.
The digits are four separate 21-pixel images from the game files with a 9-pixel separator bar between them. The bar was being positioned as if it sat at the hundreds place rather than in the gap, which put it about 10 pixels too far right — right on top of the first minutes digit. That's why the third character in your screenshot is that smeared blob: it's a "4" with the separator bar printed through it. The hours and the last digit were fine, which is why it looked like a half-broken clock rather than a blank one.
The fix moves the bar to the exact midpoint between the hours and the minutes, so it lands in the gap and touches neither digit — the layout in the two shots John posted (AM/PM stacked at the left, then 0 3 : 0 7).
On the other half of what was written down: I checked whether the clock agrees with the boat timetable. Departures are aligned to the epoch in UTC on a 15-minute cycle for the Ellinia/Orbis boats and 10 minutes for the trains and flights, while the clock reads your machine's local time. For anyone whose timezone is a whole number of hours off UTC the minutes are identical, so the clock and the timetable already agree — which is the part that matters for catching a boat. It only drifts for the half-hour and quarter-hour offset zones (India, parts of Australia, Nepal). Leaving that alone in this patch rather than silently changing the clock to UTC for everybody.
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