Well I finally decided to look at time zones, and the Netherlands is on
WET, which means that it's a major time zone, and DST changes for all of
that time zone at the same time. Which by the measure of most software
development teams is worth having in the cameras onboard time zone table.
So there are a few possibilities. You set your home city to someplace
that has the same offset from GMT/UTC as WET but doesn't observe DST, or
you've set the camera to think you're traveling to such a city. or
there's a firmware or hardware fault in your camera, since I doubt that
Ricoh's software management team decided to ignore the entirety of
Western Europe.
On 3/27/2017 2:14 PM, Jos de Fotograaf wrote:
Stan, your explanation of GPS sounds logic, thks.
The GPS is also used when shooting ASTRO, but I did not try that yet.
I will check with Ricoh/Pentax why there would be no DST timetable for
the Netherlands. As they should know US could be first but Netherlands
are second!
Anyhow, I will not wait for the software update, but change the time
manually.
Greetz, Jos
On 27-Mar-17 17:09, Stanley Halpin wrote:
Jos, my understanding is that the K-1 GPS Logging has nothing to do
with photography. It allows you to treat your camera as though it
were a GPS handheld device, but it is not connected to your basic
camera functions.
With Logging, a subroutine in the firmware will periodically query
the GPS chip, and will store the indicated location information in a
file. If you are hiking through a forest, if you set the interval to
30 seconds or 1 minute you would be able to store a fairly continuous
track of your path. It is a separate file on one of your cards, I
believe it is not in your image folder. Later you can extract that
Track and read it in various tracking/logging software. If you were
driving you might want an interval of only 5 seconds. But of course
the shorter the interval, the more processing you are asking for, and
thus the more demands you are making on your battery.
The photography (main) system in your camera does not need and does
not use GPS Logging. It only reads and stores GPS data as needed. If
you have GPS turned on, then when you take a picture the photography
system will query the GPS chip and will record location, direction
etc information within the EXiF for that captured image.
Of course, I may be wrong, I was once wrong (maybe twice) and it
might happen again at any time. But I believe the above is correct…
Back on the question of DST, I agree with the others’ comments - I
don’t think there is anything physically wrong with your camera, but
rather the problem is with the camera firmware and its ability to
maintain an internal database of the various time standards in
various regions. One simple answer might be to verify that you have
the latest firmware. But I know that I have been in many situations
where the auto-set time on various GPS capable devices has simply
been wrong.
stan
On Mar 27, 2017, at 10:35 AM, Jos de Fotograaf
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Stanley, thks. So it should work. I will contact local Pentax for
info.
Maybe you can help in understanding the GPS.
What does the camera do when GPS logging is on?
Reasoning behind selecting a certain logging interval and duration?
Greetz, Jos
On 27-Mar-17 15:16, Stanley Halpin wrote:
I just checked mine. Both have GPS Time Sync turned on. On my
primary K-1, I had DST checked. The indicated time was correct. On
my backup, I had not checked DST in the Time submenu. The indicated
time was off by one hour. I checked the DST Checkbox, the time
immediately adjusted to the correct DST local time.
So, not sure what the issue is with yours, but it does seem that it
is working for me.
stan
On Mar 27, 2017, at 8:46 AM, Jos de Fotograaf
<[email protected]> wrote:
This weekend my country (Netherlands) moved to summer time (DST)
I could have changed the clock of my K1 the easy way by just set
the clock 1 hour later.
I decided to let it happen automatically.
In the menu I selected "GPS time sync"
Then I switched on GPS logging and left it on for one hour.
After that, the time was still not corrected.
What did I do wrong?
Greetz, Jos
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