#I have a question

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open ravine
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So when I click on the thing I circle in red to set the time the same as my pc, I notice that it's not the same time and it's far from it. Here when I click that button, it put the time at 1am but my time is 21 pm. So idk how to fix it

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white riverBOT
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Thanks for posting in the support forums, willigiguere!

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sacred bloom
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@open ravine SpaceEngine uses Universal Time (UT), which is usually corresponding to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the time zone at Meridian 0. Since your local time is 21 i.e. 9pm then you live in Eastern Daylight Time zone, which is GMT-4 .

The program correctly gets your time from your computer, it's just that in general astronomy uses UT as reference time and SE uses that for its calculations.
Whenever we want to know when an astronomical phenomenon happens, like an eclipse, we will say "begins at 10:00 UT" so people knowing in which time zone they live they know when to expect the thing.