Cause um....if it is I can't recall once in my 26 years of life the sun rising at 3 pm here in central Illinois 
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ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Duh. Sorry I'm just way too used to everything being Eastern time in games. Now I'll have to do simple math to plan my invasions so they don't all occur at night 8 or 9am is still a little late for sunrise, but its much better than what I though
8 or 9am is still a little late for sunrise, but its much better than what I though 
So if you plan an attack for 7am its not taking local time its GMT? Does the battle planner screen make it easy to opt for a night/dawn/daytime attack easily no matter where in the world you are fighting or do you have to do the math?
I haven't fought a battle yet so I can't tell you. I'm playing as the USA, and its only 1937 at the moment. The GMT will take some getting used to, maybe a mod can fiddle with it and change the time to "local" for whoever is playing to avoid confusion. I kinda figured it would use local time for whatever country you were playing, and for big countries would use the time at its capital. Although once you get into overseas battle that would be tricky too....so GMT might be better. I hope that theres a nice litte "attack during daylight" button or something though, otherwise I'm going to give myself a headache trying to plan attacks in the atlantic and pacific theaters to occur in daylight hours. Or at least a "local time" indicator for a unit. Ok back to war
Or at least a "local time" indicator for a unit. Ok back to war 
That's the time God has when he looks at his watch
An understandable mistake.
I thought you Illinois folks went by Central time?
Strange that the US version of the game is in GMT, but excellent for me; Over here in England I'm going to have to play with your version (a local uk version isn't out till Feb 03!). Wouldn't be surprised if that version comes out with selectable EST,Cent, PST etc !!
As for getting our heads round the local day/night time, someone out there it bound to come up with a solution, I hope.
As for getting our heads round the local day/night time, someone out there it bound to come up with a solution, I hope.
They could have taken the correct timezone automaticly from the players computer (or windows that is).
You would still have the same problem of planning an attack except it would even be more complicated, there is a reason the miltary uses "Zulu" time.
Try this link.
World Time Zones
So all attack times are planned on GMT, making you calculate the local time its happening to ensure you don't order a night attack by mistake?
That helps if you're planning an attack for "now" but not so much if you're moving troops across zones to attack in a day or two and want to start as close to dawn as possible, for example.
Well, for now I guess you'll have to plan the attack when the target area has 'dawn' and plan them to happen at an even integer of 24 hours in the future.
Maybe a patch can clean this issue somewhat, and maybe it can't..
I don't see how it could. No matter what time the game uses the big powers are going to have to plan attacks in different time zones. A view time zone button would help work it out though.
Or maybe in the 'plan attack' window display both of GMT and local time.. I don't know..
It goes by military time, BTW. If you order you troops to attack at 0700, they will attack early in the morning. You dont have to worry about the time zone issues.
Hate to say it, but that's incorrect.
The time corresponds to the time you see at the top of the screen (GMT).
If it went by military time for each time zone, how would you know what time zone it was for a particular area, and when certain units were set to attack?
The time corresponds to the time you see at the top of the screen (GMT).
If it went by military time for each time zone, how would you know what time zone it was for a particular area, and when certain units were set to attack?
A couple of buttons that you could click that would pick local dawn and local dusk would help. So you click 'local dawn' and it sets up 15:00 for you to then adjust so you know you're getting local dawn +1 for the main attack, with the bombers going in at dawn.