Could you look at how the time of day is reported in the newspaper?
You can tell the in-game time by watching an event on the map and checking the time stamp in the newspaper immediately afterwards. Then you can compare the current in-game time to the 'countdown until day-change', and realise there is a mis-match.
In my current game, day-change occurs at 3am game time. So for example, if an action occurs with 20 hours left on the countdown timer, the newspaper will report the event occurred at 7am. Not 4am as you might expect.
If you could synchronise day-change timer and the newspaper's idea of time, and then display actual in-game time of day (I suggest put this at the top of the newspaper next to the day number), the newspaper articles would be that much more meaningful.
As it stands you can see that a certain event occurred at a certain time but it's not immediately apparent whether that happened an hour ago or five hours ago. But comparing the time-stamp of an article to the in-game time reported at the top of the newspaper, would make it clear.
(For the avoidance of doubt, I am not talking about real-life time compared to in-game time.)
You can tell the in-game time by watching an event on the map and checking the time stamp in the newspaper immediately afterwards. Then you can compare the current in-game time to the 'countdown until day-change', and realise there is a mis-match.
In my current game, day-change occurs at 3am game time. So for example, if an action occurs with 20 hours left on the countdown timer, the newspaper will report the event occurred at 7am. Not 4am as you might expect.
If you could synchronise day-change timer and the newspaper's idea of time, and then display actual in-game time of day (I suggest put this at the top of the newspaper next to the day number), the newspaper articles would be that much more meaningful.
As it stands you can see that a certain event occurred at a certain time but it's not immediately apparent whether that happened an hour ago or five hours ago. But comparing the time-stamp of an article to the in-game time reported at the top of the newspaper, would make it clear.
(For the avoidance of doubt, I am not talking about real-life time compared to in-game time.)