I am creating a dedicated thread for this since there doesn’t appear to be one around yet and this topic will likely require a lot of discussion.
There has already been some discussion about this in 0.4.4 Features Discussion Thread .
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Buckly
January 25, 2020, 3:52pm
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While that could be added, the actual details are a bit difficult without compromising realism a lot (in my opinion), like would you experience the day/night cycle during a single swimming around as a cell sessions (which is planned to last like max 5 minutes) or would the day/night change at some interval when going to the editor (which represents 100 million years in the cell stage)? So there are troublesome time differences with day/night. I can kinda tolerate us slowing down environmental changes like ice ages and things to fit the editor cycles, but seasons as well as day/night cycle seems much more difficult to fit in.
In reply to this post from the 0.4.4 features thread. All I can think of at the moment would be to speed up the day/night cycle to a span of minutes. The exact amount could perhaps depend on attributes from the planet generator, but on average I would say it aught to change every 2 minutes.