Hi, it would be cool to be able to switch to a mode where one can experience day or night based on one’s location to match one’s time of day in real life. Apologies if duplicate request
There have been a number of requests over the years regarding the day/night cycle (as well as the weather), but nothing seems to have changed. There are places where it’s never dark, or never light, or never rains, and you can ride those areas if you prefer. But, because a ‘Zwift day’ is significantly shorter than a real day, I don’t think it’s likely that it would ever be changed to match the sun up/down of any specific location.
This would need something like Flight Simulator’s graphics engine which does do time of day beautifully. You have real night time, dawn, dusk, midday and afternoon, etc. sometimes the flying at sunrise / sunset is pretty amazing to look at.
In mountain areas like the Megeve airfield (France) it’s particularly stunning to see the sun rise and set over the mountains and see how the light and shadows change. You can use the manual time of day slider to see this happen quickly. Really impressive.
flight sim also has a real planet which helps, while Zwift doesn’t - so it would have to be faked for Zwift.