On 1/23/2024 8:42 AM, Bob W PDML wrote:
On 23 Jan 2024, at 13:30, John Sessoms wrote:
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I'll have to think about changing over to UTC.
At least then ALL of the times will be "WRONG", rather than just blocks of them.
It doesn’t have to be UTC of course - it could be any time you choose as the
reference time, eg the time in your home town, or in Ulan Batar, as long as all
the cameras have the same time. It’s not like you look at the camera to tell
the time in whatever non-home timezone you may find yourself, you have a watch
for that, presumably.
I have a hard time even remembering to "Spring Forward/Fall Back" ...
the "fall back" part isn't that big of a problem, but the week after
"spring forward" I'd be late for my own hanging.
What I've got is I got the *ist-D early in 2004 and set the time to "New
York" (aka Eastern US time zone) and shipped out to Iraq a couple of
weeks later.
I didn't notice the time zone setting until I'd been in country for
several months. And after I did notice, I was back home for several
months before I noticed the camera was still on "Moscow" time (Iraq time
zone)
So I've got more than a year's worth of photos where the time is off by
12 hours. It's not a world shaking problem, but it BUGS ME - like ALWAYS
being pursued by a cloud of mosquitos. Low level irritation, but
constant and forever.
Whenever I've tried to fix it in post it ends up screwing with the DATE
(trying to change Date Taken to the current computer date/time).
To a lesser extent I've had the same "problems" with the K10D, K20D, K-3
& the K-1.
A camera that could automagically determine the local time zone & keep
the internal clock updated would suit me just fine. My cell phone can do
it, why can't my camera?
I use the cell phone camera occasionally, but I like my DSLRs more. I
couldn't have done the eclipse on my cell phone.
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