What I discovered through my own trial and error is that the only things that sync from the mount to KStars is the actual UTC time (with no offset and no DST setting), and your GPS coordinates. It appears KStars then knows based on your location what offset and DST to apply to your current location and then corrects the time.

This means that if I plug in DST settings into the mount, KStars doesn't know that there is a DST set, because it thinks it's only getting the UTC time, and it offsets the time by DTC even though you've already done it in the mount now making KStars have the wrong time by one hour.

I don't know if this is driver dependent or not. But that seems to be the way the 10Micron driver works. It could be different for other mounts.

The rule is correct for McAllen. It's -5 now, and in the database it's -6 (RAW without DST correction). So mount should report -5 which is sent to Ekos. Ekos checks DST is on and subtracts 1, so we're back to -6 which is set as the RAW uncorrected offset (TZ0).

Andrew, so 10Micron uses LX200 and it queries <strong>Local</strong> date and time, then using the offset received from the mount, it generates the UTC time. If you turn off auto connect in your equipment profile, this allows logging to be enabled before connection to the mount is established. Then connect by pressing "Connect" and then the log should show what time/offset are received from the mount itself. The log you attached doesn't show this info yet.

Ok, I will check my mount, and make sure the DST is set to off.

I recently did a firmware update to my mount, maybe it set it to on.
Thanks for your hard work on all this, (I see you guys are doing lots of changes on invent.kde.org, lots of great stuff happening!)

Interesting, I would have never figured that out. When I put all the correct information into my mount, UTC offset -6 for Central Time (Houston Texas). Currently observing DST (DST On). KStars somehow is off by 1 hour. So I have to turn DST off on the mount, then Kstars displays the correct time. So maybe Kstars is adjusting for DST itself?

I should have mentioned too, that I don't auto connect. So the log should show the time. Just search for UTC, and you'll find where it gets the time from the mount. I thought I quoted the relevant line in that post with the log unless that was something else.

If DST is observed, the offset from the mount should be -5. It should say -5 in INDI Control Panel.

Yes, this seemed obvious to me. But that's not what it's doing. The mount Offset is -6. That's one setting. Then there's a separate DST setting to Yes or No.

When DST is set to Yes, he mount's clock represents this correctly. But the offset in the mount is still -6.

So the internal mount clock is only for display purposes in the hand controller. And the mount information is not determined by that, but by the actual UTC time (it says this in the manual). So I have to operate the mount with incorrect settings (no DST), and the hand controller shows the wrong time, but EKOS now has the right time.

So the mount would send -6 regardless on whether or not the DST is ON/OFF in the hand controller?

Yeah, this is correct. I just brought in all my equipment as we're about to have another hurricane in our area. But I'm going to test every parameter around time, and see what comes into EKOS from the mount with each option just to confirm everything before any changes are made.

Despite using the settings I prescribed above, and having the correct time in EKOS as pulled from the mount, my meridian flip went early about 1 hour, so something is still not correct.

Of course, if I make EKOS the master time keeper, everything works as planned. It's only when I make the mount the time and location master that things go wrong. Pointing accuracy is hurt when I sync time and location to the mount, so do need to get the issue sorted out.

same issue here, I've tried DST off / on at the hand controller, it makes no difference.

Mount time: set to what the current GMT+1 is (as current location is London)
Mount DST: off
MOUNT UTC: +060

Ekos:
Mount Updates Kstars
Time sync ticked

and I get in the bottom left corner the time in UTC and not UTC+1

Hi all,
I'm not sure if this issue still exists. I've not had it myself. I have no MGPBOX or GPS and use the 'kstars updates time' setting.
If ppl still have this issue then next to Jasem's enable debug log before you connect post earlier in this thread is a good place to start, and maybe this helps for those that are not afraid to telnet to an API :
The 10micron API can be reached on port 3490 as follows :here you can give commands to the mount, like 'what is todays date' and I've added my mounts' responses so you have an idea what format expector what is your timezone offset ?or what time do you think it is now ?Maybe this helps anyone in finding any discrepancies.
-- Hans

I know this is an old thread but wondering if this was ever resolved. Previously I had my 10micron updating kstars and it all seemed to work. After updating kstars to 3.5.9 on ubuntu linux I now seem to have kstars time offset by 1 hour from correct local time and meridian flip is messing up. It seems OK if I set kstars update mount. I have also seen it suggested to not have mount and kstars trying to sync time and let GPS set mount independently of kstars. What is the currently understood best way to do this?