Editing persistence file to change mission start date/duration

[sumghai]

I'm currently in the process of recreating all my prior flights from 0.20 in 0.21, and for the most part have put most of my probes in the right orbits.

I've decided I wanted to tweak the persistence file to give some sensible gaps in time between missions (e.g. I launched my first satellite on a particular day, followed by a second one a week later and a crewed flight a month after that), and so far I've managed to set my current time in-game to Year 2, Day 77, 12pm (UT = 38146267.2401094).

However, I seem to be having trouble editing the timestamps for the flights themselves - is it the "met = " field for each flight, and if so, what units of time is it in?

[blubbermonkeys]

"met'" I believe is the seconds before launch since the start of the save.

therefore if you launch a spacescraft at UT= 100, than met=100

So, yes and the unit is seconds.

[sumghai]

Odd - changing the "met" values for each of the missions has no effect, even when using very large number of seconds equivalent to several months.

Perhaps there is a another field that stores the flight time / launch date for each flight?

[Ricardo.b]

I think is the 'lct= ' value (local time)