Stellarium

Sunrise inaccurate for year 1204 CE

Asked by Tom Imerito

I am writing a novel set in Southern France in the year 1204 CE and would like to describe the sky at dawn.
However, when I set my Stellarium clock to 1204/4/4/5:00:00, the sun is high in the sky.
Running the clock backwards the sun rises at 1:00AM.
I have checked the location coordinates (N 47° 56' 17.88" E 1° 48' 16.31") and the arrow in the location map shows the correct location.
Could I be doing something wrong, or does the algorithm lose accuracy over 8 centuries?
I am running 32 bit Vista Home Premium Service Pack 2.

Thanks,
Tom Imerito
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Best Khalid AlAjaji (kajaji) said : 		#1

You need to set one more thing: Time zone

You can do that from your windows system control panel -> clock, language, region -> date and time and then select time zone for Paris UTC+1

or from within Stellarium, Configuration window -> plugin tab -> Time zone plugin -> check "load at startup" box if it is not checked

Restart stellarium and again Configuration window -> plugin tab -> Time zone plugin -> configure button -> select "offset from UTC and set the value to 1.0 hours -> save settings button -> restart stellarium

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Tom Imerito (thomas-f0mkzpidd9jkdhog) said : 		#2

Thank you very much, Khalid.
Your solution worked perfectly!