Currently, we can set the date that ASC and FSGP are occurring at in config/settings_*.json. However, this is only used to calculate the time zones during the competition.
Nonetheless, we only have weather data for what's forecasted in the near short-term; we cannot acquire data for any period of time we want. If we want to simulate ASC, we can't just pull weather information for July in November. If we forced the cached data to be for the same date that we want to simulate, we'd almost never be able to cache anything.
Currently, we cache weather data for a route, and do not care about the date. The system we have may be the best for now, but this is not optimal.
Currently, we can set the date that ASC and FSGP are occurring at in
config/settings_*.json. However, this is only used to calculate the time zones during the competition.Nonetheless, we only have weather data for what's forecasted in the near short-term; we cannot acquire data for any period of time we want. If we want to simulate ASC, we can't just pull weather information for July in November. If we forced the cached data to be for the same date that we want to simulate, we'd almost never be able to cache anything.
Currently, we cache weather data for a route, and do not care about the date. The system we have may be the best for now, but this is not optimal.