Stellarium

  1. Bug #510480
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 510480

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Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab) wrote : Re: Different country location and local timezone error

It turns out that the value of the "time_zone" field in the configuration file is interpreted as a TZ system variable value, not as the commonly used human-readable "UTC+offset" values.

See here for an explanation of why "UTC-6" doesn't have the expected result:
http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/TZ-Variable.html

Basically, the "offset" is interpreted as the number of hours that should be _added_ to local time to get UTC.

You can try entering some human-readable time zone name as recognised by the tz utility:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
You can try "America/Chicago", perhaps? I am not sure if the time zone names used by tz on Unix/Linux will be recognized on Windows.

Stellarium's user manual most definitely needs to be updated...