Location dialog doesn't update the time zone

[Marcello Pietrobon]

Using version 0.90.0.9767 trunk downloaded the 2017/08/20

When I change location from the location window the Time Zone is automatically adapting to the chosen location. This if I use the version 0.11,

but not if I use the 0.90.0.9767 trunk version.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

0.11? But version 0.11 is doesn't know about time zones. 0.90.0.9767 changed time zones when location are changes.

[Marcello Pietrobon (marcellosky)]

Sorry about that. The version that I know such feature is working is 0.16.0 (the latest one on http://www.stellarium.org/)

I confirm the problem on version 0.90.0.9767 trunk downloaded the 2017/08/20

[gzotti (georg-zotti)]

Selecting a stored location will set correct time zone. Clicking on the map enables only local mean time. Setting time zone in addition should not be too difficult.

[Marcello Pietrobon (marcellosky)]

Thank you for the answer.
It's too long to explain why I got into thinking that a version that is not the 0.90 was automatically adapting the time zone to the chosen location. I was mistaken.

At the same time I find it very natural to have that, though I understand that with only few programmers doing the entire work this would be a feature not worth the effort.
Should I convert this bug report into a feature request, evaluate the interest, and then maybe consider to implement it (I would need to find the time for it too)?

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Please write detailed description or explanation what exactly you want to see or where is the problem.

[gzotti (georg-zotti)]

What Marcello wants (and I also see it would be nice) is clicking on the map and getting not only long/lat but also the correct timezone. This would require a polygon lookup (inside/outside testing) with a set of timezone-describing polygons, which we however do not have. (And they are frequently changing!)

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

The bug report was moved to https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/issues/433