knro wrote:

sonny486 wrote: Mine turned out to be KStars had the DST rules for my geographic location incorrect, I just made a copy of my location and put -5 hrs instead of -6 that was the rule in KStars. Fixed the issue.


What's the rule that requires fixing?


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.

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