Hi,Don't know if this is possible, but worth asking. I want to be able to adjust my own timezone discrepancies without having to download (or rely) on other people's add-ons.I'm curious where in the default FS9 folder I can find the file that controls the timezones? Can I open this with a text program like 'Word Pad', or something similar?Alaska should be all one time zone, and the simulator has it divided into several.Thanks,-- John

edit: delete (problem solved).

edit: delete (problem solved).

It is considered good form to advise what was done to solve any problem. The solution might be a value to someone else with the same or similar issue in the future.

It is considered good form to advise what was done to solve any problem. The solution might be a value to someone else with the same or similar issue in the future.

Yes, you're right, and sorry I should have thought about that. I was having issues with time zones and wished to open up the default .bgl file myself. Since I received no responses from anyone else regarding this, I decided to research the problem further myself, and found Dennis Thompson's Time Zone 3.0 (correction download). My question that I deleted concerned the fact that I didn't know how to download the pack of .bgl's, .bat's, etc. other than knowing that it was supposed to be nested somewhere within the main scenery file.Via trial and error (meaning to say, I don't really know what I'm doing but I got lucky), I got the time zone scenery files (well... Dennis Thompson calls them scenery files... I consider them more like 'inaccurate clock correction' files myself), to work in the simulator by nesting them the following way:C-drive > Program Files > Microsoft Games > Flight Simulator 9 > Scenery > BASE > Scenery > [all the individual time zone files of Dennis Thompson 3.0' (bgl's, bgd's, etc.) just sitting loose at the bottom of the folder].I have no idea if I was supposed to do it this way (his read-me file didn't make it 100% clear), but it worked.Now since you were nice enough to reply to my post, can I ask you this:Since installing the Dennis time zone correction I'm sure it fixed a lot. It seems to have put 1/2 hour increments in Australia that otherwise didn't exist, and it corrected Alaska-- my primary concern for using it in the first place. However, in doing so, it also created this strange anomaly where despite the fact that the sun is up all day in Alaska on June 25th, when I typed in a local 12:00 hour, in the time/date menu, the 'daylight' icon would show to the left... but if I advanced it into the 13:00 hour (local time) or beyond, the 'night' icon would appear... even though it's still obviously daytime:What's more, this for some reason would make the simulator think it was night-time, and turn on the rotating beacon at my chosen airport in the middle of the day. Has this happened to anyone else, and is there a way to prevent it when using Dennis' program?Finally, do you know is there a way to open up the default timezone.bgl file with a program that allows me to edit timezones myself by altering the text? Or is it not that easy? How did Dennis Thompson do it?Thank you,-- John

AFAIK, you decompile the BGL file using a BGL file decompiler (into XML code), edit the XML code, and then recompile with BGLComp, but that's just a guess.Hope this helps,

AFAIK, you decompile the BGL file using a BGL file decompiler (into XML code), edit the XML code, and then recompile with BGLComp, but that's just a guess.Hope this helps,

Mr, Gibson,Thanks for the info. I'll have a look around the internet and see what I come up with. It's a pity that Dennis Thompson seems to be "un-contactable" these days. Back in the hey-day (I guess pre-2005 or so), he gave out his email address in his "read-me" files, he had a Yahoo Group that talked all about time zones. He was the Dalli-Lama of time zones, if you will. He sounds like he'd have been a very interesting guy to talk to. Unfortunately, his email address bounces back and his Yahoo Group is no longer valid. Sounds like once again, I'm a little late in the game trying to play catch up on things everyone else discussed 7 years ago. Oh well... story of my life. I still drive around in a 1968 Ford, and listen to Led Zeppelin... maybe one day I'll catch up with the rest of the world!!! LOL -- John