Stellarium 13 & 13.1 do not change date crossing midnight

[Bill Welker]

I did not see this reported: I run Stellarium in Windows 7. (I run the 64 bit version if it is available.) I run Stellarium 24 hours a day as a "real time moon" display. Worked fine on 12.4. In 13.0 and 13.1, I noticed it seems to work fine as a real-time display, but when the date of the PC changes, i.e., the time passes midnight, Stellarium retains the previous day's date. So the next day, even though Stellarium shows the correct time, the moon's phase is the previous day's because Stellarium did not increment the date.

So to reproduce this problem, start Stellarium 13 or 13.1, zoom in and "lock" on the moon, then wait till after midnight and you should see that Stellarium did not increment the date.

To solve, I re-installed 12.4 and it works fine.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

I can't reproduce the issue. Are you sure that this was not switching to light saving time in the operating system?

[Bill Welker (boffinbill)]

Well, I'm sorry about that. The problem is most definitely not the
computer operating system switching time. The has been no switching to
or from daylight savings time. Plus, the problem is not a single hour
change - Stellarium loses a whole day. It retains the correct time of
day, jut not the date. Using Stellarium v 13 or 13.1, the problem
manifests itself by Stellarium not incrementing the date when the
computer has incremented the date at midnight. I have removed 13 &
13.1 and am currently running Stellarium 12.4, so I presently can't
reproduce the problem either. So I guess you can "shelve" the issue,
then if I try 13 again and experience the problem, I'll see if I can add
any more details to the problem.

Bill Welker

On 9/22/2014 01:15, Alexander Wolf wrote:
> I can't reproduce the issue. Are you sure that this was not switching to
> light saving time in the operating system?
>
> ** Tags added: windows
>

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

Since this is about timekeeping, I will look into it.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Can you check Stellarium 0.13.3 - I guess we fixed this issue - http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/7481

[Bill Welker (boffinbill)]

Okay, I downloaded 13.3, 64bit, and installed it and have run it
continuously now for 48 hours. It DID change date properly both nights.

So I think this is fixed!

Thank you,

Bill Welker

On 5/9/2015 10:51, Alexander Wolf wrote:
> Can you check Stellarium 0.13.3 - I guess we fixed this issue -
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/7481
>
> ** Changed in: stellarium
> Assignee: Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab) => (unassigned)
>
> ** Changed in: stellarium
> Status: New => In Progress
>