Setting the camera time when traveling between time zones
May 19, 2018 09:42:53 #
I've searched the Hog and came up empty on this subject.
When traveling between time zones and making photos in each zone, should the time on the camera be left set to the original time zone or changed as you cross time zone boundaries?
What about daylight saving time? Should we leave the camera set to standard time or should it follow DST?
Then there is the Arizona question. Do you follow local time, which is Pacific time during the summer and Mountain time in the winter?
It's all so confusing. I'm leaning toward leaving the camera set to CST all the time.
What do you do and why?
When traveling between time zones and making photos in each zone, should the time on the camera be left set to the original time zone or changed as you cross time zone boundaries?
What about daylight saving time? Should we leave the camera set to standard time or should it follow DST?
Then there is the Arizona question. Do you follow local time, which is Pacific time during the summer and Mountain time in the winter?
It's all so confusing. I'm leaning toward leaving the camera set to CST all the time.
What do you do and why?
May 19, 2018 09:44:44 #
Why not set the camera to GMT. Then all you need to do is keep track of your location and the number of hours different from GMT.
--Bob
--Bob
ejones0310 wrote:
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May 19, 2018 09:47:18 #
LarryFitz
Loc: Beacon NY
I don't change it. Date is import to me exact time is not. If it is important to you change it.
May 19, 2018 09:48:21 #
rmalarz wrote:
Why not set the camera to GMT. Then all you need to do is keep track of your location and the number of hours different from GMT.
--Bob
--Bob
Yes, I'm considering that option as well. My concern with GMT is I'm an old guy and have never used GMT. Can I teach myself to deal with it? I know, only I can answer that.
Is GMT and Universal Time always the same?
Strange that I love time travel stories and have such a hard time dealing with time.
May 19, 2018 10:00:29 #
Yes, GMT and its cousin UT2 are always the same and do not change throughout the year. I have the situation where I synchronize my photos with data stored in a GPS logger, so it is most convenient to always have the camera set to the same offset from GMT (it's awkward to have to use different offsets to process photos taken on the same day in different time zones). Since I'm in the CST/CDT zone most of the time, that is what I leave the camera set to, no matter where I am located. It's not too confusing when I'm touring in Europe since most pictures get taken on the correct date, at least, but it was a trifle confusing (for me) when I toured Australia and New Zealand. (The GPS software had no problem with it, though.)
May 19, 2018 10:01:59 #
GMT or UT is the same. I have a friend in England and we use GMT for arranging when to phone each other. Like areas of the U.S., England has BST which changes with the seasons. Keeping our times to GMT avoids keeping track of what clock time it is there and here.
--Bob
--Bob
ejones0310 wrote:
Yes, I'm considering that option as well. My concern with GMT is I'm an old guy and have never used GMT. Can I teach myself to deal with it? I know, only I can answer that.
Is GMT and Universal Time always the same?
Strange that I love time travel stories and have such a hard time dealing with time.
Is GMT and Universal Time always the same?
Strange that I love time travel stories and have such a hard time dealing with time.
May 19, 2018 10:06:13 #
ejones0310 wrote:
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I don't change my time settings on my camera. When I import using Lightroom, this keeps everything on the same settings and avoids duplicate time stamps. Besides, why complicated everything?
May 19, 2018 10:11:17 #
LarryFitz wrote:
I don't change it. Date is import to me exact time is not. If it is important to you change it.
Ditto.
An hour difference wouldn't make a difference to me.
(AM; noon-ish; PM is close enough.)
May 19, 2018 10:14:31 #
rmalarz wrote:
Why not set the camera to GMT. Then all you need to do is keep track of your location and the number of hours different from GMT.
--Bob
--Bob
Good method.
May 19, 2018 10:56:05 #
Wow, I worked in a com center in the military and we used Zulu time. I do not remember what that referenced to, I think it was GMT. I hate getting old.
I do not change camera time when I travel.
I do not change camera time when I travel.
May 19, 2018 11:03:28 #
Say Cheese wrote:
Wow, I worked in a com center in the military and we used Zulu time. I do not remember what that referenced to, I think it was GMT. I hate getting old.
I do not change camera time when I travel.
I do not change camera time when I travel.
I agree.. it doesn't really matter to me what time it is where I'm shooting. If I start messing with the clock in the camera, then I could forget to set it back. This way, everything that I shoot is on the correct time.. by the way, the camera is smart enough to correct (assuming that you've updated your camera files in camera) time (standard or daylight savings). It also would complicate things (but I would ignore it) if Florida goes, as some are suggesting, to constant daylight savings time year round. To me, that would be stupid.. We would be i(n essence) in the Eastern time zone during the "summer normal daylight savings time" and in the central time zone during the winter (non-daylight savings for the rest of the eastern time zone) period.
May 19, 2018 11:10:07 #
Zulu is the military equivalent of GMT (Briitish preferred) or UTC (the U.S. preferred).
--Bob
--Bob
Say Cheese wrote:
Wow, I worked in a com center in the military and we used Zulu time. I do not remember what that referenced to, I think it was GMT. I hate getting old.
I do not change camera time when I travel.
I do not change camera time when I travel.
May 19, 2018 11:50:35 #
If your camera has a GPS feature just enable it and let it change automatically... I think it is important to know what time of day a shot was made; why fool around doing mental calculations ?
May 19, 2018 12:04:14 #
mwsilvers
Loc: Central New Jersey
ejones0310 wrote:
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Never worried about it. In all these year I've never been concerned with the exact time an image was taken. The date yes, but not the time. If its off an hour or two because of a time zone switch I really don't care.
May 19, 2018 14:02:36 #
Say Cheese wrote:
The military does, indeed, refer to GMT as "Zulu time" as in 1700Z (5pm GMT).Wow, I worked in a com center in the military and we used Zulu time. I do not remember what that referenced to, I think it was GMT. I hate getting old.
I do not change camera time when I travel.
I do not change camera time when I travel.
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