Lar-E Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 How many days make a Kerbin year (per tracking station)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blizzy78 Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 I'll try and answer this using data from the Wiki: http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/KerbinThe rotational period is 21600 sec (6 hours.) The orbital period is 9203545 sec. So that's ~426.1 Kerbin days per orbit. Since a Kerbin day is only 6 Earth hours long, that translates to ~106.5 Earth days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lar-E Posted December 9, 2013 Author Share Posted December 9, 2013 Blizzy, thanks for the info, but what I'm actually looking for is: when does the calendar in the Tracking Station click over to year 2, day 1? Just for mission planning purposes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blizzy78 Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Oh, okay. That I don't know, but I'm pretty sure someone else does Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epthelyn Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 The tracking station goes by Earth time. One year is 365 Earth days, a day is 24 Earth hours etc.At least I'm pretty sure it does, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danish_Savage Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 It does that on day 365. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheeseMonger Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 On 09/12/2013 at 0:30 PM, Danish_Savage said: It does that on day 365. Incorrect! The thingy does chanvge from yar 0 to 1 at day 426 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlorizzante Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 On 2/13/2017 at 6:17 PM, CheeseMonger said: Incorrect! The thingy does chanvge from yar 0 to 1 at day 426 True, I was looking this video today and I was wondering the same thing. You may see that a Kerbal year doesn't skip forward at 365 days. https://youtu.be/TzXz4FzKgTQ?t=12m6s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrLicor Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 It's just how you've set it in the settings, There's a option in the settings menu to set it to earth time (next year in 365 days) or into kerbal time (next year in 426 days). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streetwind Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 (edited) On 13.2.2017 at 6:17 PM, CheeseMonger said: Incorrect! The thingy does chanvge from yar 0 to 1 at day 426 13 hours ago, carlorizzante said: True, I was looking this video today and I was wondering the same thing. You may see that a Kerbal year doesn't skip forward at 365 days. https://youtu.be/TzXz4FzKgTQ?t=12m6s Note that this thread that @CheeseMonger just exhumed from its grave is from 2013. Back in the days, KSP showed time only in Earth days, with 24 hours and 365 days. "Kerbin time", where a day has only six hours and a year has 426 days, was added only later in the game's development. That was also when the timekeeping in general got straightened out and little inconsistencies were fixed, such as sidereal vs synodic rotation period and so on. Edited March 2, 2017 by Streetwind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deddly Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 As @Streetwind points out, lots of things have changed in the three years since @Lar-E asked his question. But it's good we got this clarified so people can get the correct answer if they do a Good search. Well done, everyone! . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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