My understanding is it's based off EST/EDT for the US.

Alpheu5 wrote: »

It's basically just a super-wide spotlight in the sky that changes its angle depending on the in-game time variable. To get the sun to do what you want it to do, each zone would effectively have to have a different sun path depending on the calendar and its latitude on the world map, which would be problematic on a long zone like Cyrodiil and Auridon. We also have no idea how much lateral space Tamriel takes up on the planet(?), so there would have to be a whole lot of geographical canonizing for Bethesda to do, which could potentially limit the amount of terrain they have to work with for future installments to the Elder Scrolls series.

What if there was just one big spotlight for the entire world and it moved across the map. So Stonefalls will be brighter earlier and Stros M'Kai is one of the last places to be light? Then, that huge spotlight would affect the world differently depending on where you're at.

Obviously I know it's unreasonable, and I'm not even requesting it, but how cool would it be? I think it'd increase the depth greatly. But I'm just theorizing here

Really nice idea everyone.
I firmly believe ESO could use more of immersion improvements. Currently there's not too much of it.

Alpheu5 wrote: »

It's basically just a super-wide spotlight in the sky that changes its angle depending on the in-game time variable. To get the sun to do what you want it to do, each zone would effectively have to have a different sun path depending on the calendar and its latitude on the world map, which would be problematic on a long zone like Cyrodiil and Auridon. We also have no idea how much lateral space Tamriel takes up on the planet(?), so there would have to be a whole lot of geographical canonizing for Bethesda to do, which could potentially limit the amount of terrain they have to work with for future installments to the Elder Scrolls series.

A TES fan : "But you... You said it was X, not Y!!"

Bethesda: "It totally was X... Then a wizard caused a Dragonbreak, and now it's Y, T, and purple all at once".

max_only wrote: »

When it's night in game it's night everywhere in game which makes me feel as though all of Tamriel is in the same time zone. Which means we are a small continent on a very large planet. There are other continents in the lore that aren't that far away but that leaves an entire hemisphere of unknowns.

Unless Nirn is flat.

Or we all part of an god having an elaborate dream.

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/ui64h/tamriels_size_in_square_miles/

Tamriel is about half again the size of Alaska... Not even sure if it even actually counts as a small island continent, or just a rather large island.

Nordicly_Responsible wrote: »

Shgon_Dunstan wrote: »

Tamriel is about half again the size of Alaska...

Looks like according to that math Tamriel is almost 1.5 times the size of Alaska, not half.

... You know this is the second time I have posted that somewhere, only for someone to fail to understand what "half again" means. -_-

Meri20098 wrote: »

My understanding is it's based off EST/EDT for the US.

It is not.

The in-game day/night cycle is only 4-5 hours long.

You can track in-game time using add-ons:

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info241-Clock-TamrielStandardTime.html

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1399-VotansMiniMap.html

max_only wrote: »

When it's night in game it's night everywhere in game which makes me feel as though all of Tamriel is in the same time zone. Which means we are a small continent on a very large planet. There are other continents in the lore that aren't that far away but that leaves an entire hemisphere of unknowns.

Unless Nirn is flat.

Or we all part of an god having an elaborate dream.

Yep, there's also the issue of time in ESO being skewed so that night time is incredibly short, clearly to make the game more "fun" to play. But ultimately timezones and geographical scale are simply something the devs haven't put much thought into yet. There's no reliable way of measuring Tamriel's "true" scale until they create a book or novel that goes to great lengths to be to scale. Games don't for obvious reasons, and novels... well that would be a weird tangent to take.

The other explanation could work though! Maybe Amaranth just sucks at geography. But then ESO should be ignored anyway in this regard for being the most lore-broken game in the series. Why can't I achieve CHIM, ZOS? I've figured it all out, but my character is still on the same level as everyone else's, and I'm not allowed to use any levitation and god mode mods. Your game is broken!

Sneaky-Snurr wrote: »

Really nice idea everyone.
I firmly believe ESO could use more of immersion improvements. Currently there's not too much of it.

Guess they could start by making the weather the same for everyone. It may be sunny for me in ESO, but the person next to me could be having rain.