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world map as a small dot, and when a city is highlighted in the list, a red
crosshairs appears on its location in the map.
It is not practical to scroll through the full list of 3400 locations, looking for a
specific city. To make searches easier, the list can be filtered by entering text in
the boxes below the map. For example, in the screenshot, the text A appears in
the City Filter box, while Te has been entered in the Province Filter box,
and USA is in the Country Filter box. Note that all of the cities displayed in the list
have city, province, and country names that begin with the entered filter strings,
and that the message below the filter boxes indicates that 6 cities are matched
by the filters. Also notice that the dots representing these six cities in the map
have been colored white, while the unmatched cities remain gray.
The list can also be filtered by location in the map. Clicking anywhere in the world
map will show only those cities within two degrees of the clicked location. At this
time, you can search by name, or by location, but not both at once. In other
words, when you click on the map, the name filters are ignored, and vice versa.
The longitude, latitude and time zone information for the currently-selected
location are displayed in the boxes at the bottom of the window. If you feel that
any of these values are inaccurate, you can modify them and press the + (Add
City) button to record your custom version of the location. You can also define a
completely new location by pressing the Clear Fields button, and entering the
data for the new location. Note that all fields except the
optional State/Province must be filled before the new location can be added to
the list. KStars will automatically load your custom locations for all future
sessions. Please note, at this point, the only way to remove a custom location is
to remove the appropriate line from the file kstars/mycities.dat in your
folder qtpaths --paths GenericDataLocation.
If you add custom locations (or modify existing ones), please send us
your mycities.dat file so that we can add your locations to the master list.
18.2.2 Setting the Time
When KStars starts up, the time is set to your computer's system clock, and
the KStars clock is running to keep up with the real time. If you want to stop the
clock, select Stop Clock from the Time menu, or simply click on the Stop
Clock icon in the toolbar. You can make the clock run slower or faster than
normal, or even make it run backward, using the time-step spinbox in the toolbar.
This spinbox has two sets of up/down buttons. The first one will step through all
83 available time steps, one by one. The second one will skip to the next higher
(or lower) unit of time, which allows you to make large timestep changes more
quickly.
You can set the time and date by selecting Set Time... from the Time menu, or by
pressing the time icon in the toolbar. The Set Time window uses a
standard KDE Date Picker widget, coupled with a spinbox for setting the hours
and minutes. If you want to re-synchronize the simulation clock back to the
current CPU time, just select Set Time to Now from the Time menu.
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