> On Jan 22, 2024, at 2:07 PM, Bob W PDML <pdm...@icloud.com> wrote: > >> On 22 Jan 2024, at 21:36, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: >> >> Can it reset the clock to LOCAL time? >> >> That's the biggest problem I have with the clock - traveling to a different >> time zone and forgetting to set the camera's clock to the correct time zone, >> i.e. I have the camera set to "New York" (because it doesn't have a setting >> for "Eastern" time or "Raleigh, NC" and I'm in Albuquerque ... or halfway >> round the world, so the clock may be off anywhere 2 to 12 hours. >> > > I’d expect the satellites to transmit UTC. Local time is a function of UTC > and the time zone offset and savings time, derived from the GPS coordinates. > > If I were you I’d set all my cameras to UTC, then you shouldn’t have any > problems merging image files from different cameras and getting the date/time > sorting all stuffed up. > > Then photograph a town name from time to time so you have an embedded record > of where you were. Modern operating systems can recognise and select text in > image files, so you can copy and paste it into the metadata if you want to.
Hmm. I like to keep the camera's date setting current, but rarely ever look at the time my cameras are set to. I order things in LR by frame number, not by time, and only very very occasionally use more than one camera at a time, so it's rarely an issue. If I do have two cameras output (iphone and m10m, or m10m and m10r), since I don't shoot all that many frames in a session on average, I can usually integrate all the photos together in the right sequence and then rename them into an ordinal sequence, if that seems important. I can also set the capture times into an ordinal range that way. Most of the time, I don't worry about time and date very much. Once I've rendered my photos and put together a set to display, whatever order they are in is what I choose, not what the frame numbering or the time/date sequence are. Life is sure simpler in the Polaroid instant film world where a pack of film has only eight exposures and I can remember exactly what sequence I shot them in… :D G -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
