Set the time zone offset of your chosen location and restart. For another thing you can spin through to any date and time you choose so the default setting (whilst confusing when you are trying to do RO) is pretty meaningless. right now), or system date at a fixed time (today after dark) or a fixed date and time as your default. So you can use system date and time (i.e. For one thing you can change the default setting under Configuration->Navigation->Startup date and time. The default displayed time is arbitrary and unlike the setting above is the right choice for most users who would want to see the sky as it is right now in their current location. Most planetaria handle time zones more elegantly and update time zones to match locations and date (for daylight savings), but Stellarium requires you to change both yourself.
This is why I said Stellarium is brain dead when it comes to handling computer time, time zones and locations. Bingo, Stellarium now shows a nice dark sky, exactly what you would expect at 22:15 AEST. What I need to do is change my location to (say) Brisbane in Australia, which is 10 hours ahead of UTC. When I look out of the window it is pretty dark, and I would not expect to see the sun almost overhead at 22:15 in the evening so clearly something else is wrong. Stellarium is displaying the sun just past the meridian (start of the afternoon). So for example, right now my default location is set to the UK, I have changed the time zone to UTC +10 hours, and the computer time is 22:15 BST.
You must change the time zone and change the location to match for things to make sense.
Changing the time zone setting does not offset the displayed time relative to your computer time, it just uses your computer time (by default) The time displayed by default when you start Stellarium is the current time on your computer. Stellarium does not link longitude, time zones and computer time in a sensible manner which is why it is a bit confusing until you figure out what is going on: Thanks, did that but its still giving local time
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