As an example, when i set any city in country India and input a date in the past say 29th nov 1978 at 01:03AM, i see that the sun is shining bright in the sky and all the rising constellations and sky are wrong.
Now with the same city/country location when i set the time and date what it would have been in US PT then the correct sky chart show up. It would be great if the date/time recognizes what country/location has been selected and considers 'local' time of that country.
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2010-01-20T18:49:06
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This is not an "error", but a misunderstanding or a missing feature. To make it clear for future inquiries:
The time shown in Stellarium is your computer's local time, not the local time of the location selected in Stellarium. A location's local time will match Stellarium's displayed time only if that location's time zone matches your computer's time zone. When you use Stellarium to display the sky over locations in other time zones, you should mind the time difference.
You can override the way Stellarium interprets your computer's time by editing the config.ini file. (On Windows XP, it should be in "Documents and Settings/ YourUserName/ Application Data/Stellarium".) Look for "time_zone" under "[localization]". The default value is "system_default". The accepted values are different for the different systems, but "UTC", "UTC+value" and "UTC-value" should work (without the quotation marks).