Time Setting on Camera Change to DST or Leave at Standard Time?
Mar 17, 2022 22:05:46 #
Hello Hoggers,
I'm wondering how many change the camera time setting to Daylight Savings vs just leaving it in standard time?
I'm wondering how many change the camera time setting to Daylight Savings vs just leaving it in standard time?
Mar 17, 2022 22:38:30 #
Mar 17, 2022 22:39:41 #
Mar 17, 2022 22:48:03 #
All my devices are set to GMT. It's not geekiness, just laziness.
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FWIW, also due to laziness, the clocks in my house and car are kept on local DST all year long.
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FWIW, also due to laziness, the clocks in my house and car are kept on local DST all year long.
Mar 17, 2022 22:53:36 #
Mar 17, 2022 23:33:39 #
Mr Bill 2011
Loc: southern Indiana
JD750 wrote:
Hello Hoggers,
I'm wondering how many change the camera time setting to Daylight Savings vs just leaving it in standard time?
I'm wondering how many change the camera time setting to Daylight Savings vs just leaving it in standard time?
I always change the clocks in the house including on the microwave and coffeepot. I change the others as I come to them; just changed the clock in the car today. I change the cameras when I use them. I like to know what time it is; it is inconsiderate to make others wait for you if you have an agreed meeting time.
Mar 17, 2022 23:43:35 #
User ID wrote:
All my devices are set to GMT. It's not geekiness, just laziness.
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FWIW, also due to laziness, the clocks in my house and car are kept on local DST all year long.
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FWIW, also due to laziness, the clocks in my house and car are kept on local DST all year long.
GMT!! I like that idea!
Mar 18, 2022 03:03:10 #
Mr Bill 2011 wrote:
I always change the clocks in the house including on the microwave and coffeepot. I change the others as I come to them; just changed the clock in the car today. I change the cameras when I use them. I like to know what time it is; it is inconsiderate to make others wait for you if you have an agreed meeting time.
Thaz why i use DST for my all-year-long setting rather than std time. If I should accidentally belive the clocks during the "wrong" season I'm an hour early, never an hour late.
Mar 18, 2022 03:59:09 #
LouieP
Loc: Sebring/Avon Park, FL area
I location tag my photos using syncing the .GPX file from my tracker epwith the time on my photos, so yea, I do change the time on my camera.
Mar 18, 2022 07:35:39 #
Mar 18, 2022 08:47:18 #
If the bill passes the house, then this is the last time change... we will be on DLST forever.
"It’s happened: On Tuesday, the US Senate voted unanimously to make daylight saving time permanent beginning in 2023. Perhaps the unambiguous results were influenced by the fact that most of us just turned clocks forward on Sunday, and the disruptiveness of it is probably on lawmakers’ minds. "
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22979745/senate-daylight-saving-time-vote-good
"It’s happened: On Tuesday, the US Senate voted unanimously to make daylight saving time permanent beginning in 2023. Perhaps the unambiguous results were influenced by the fact that most of us just turned clocks forward on Sunday, and the disruptiveness of it is probably on lawmakers’ minds. "
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22979745/senate-daylight-saving-time-vote-good
Mar 18, 2022 10:33:47 #
Mar 18, 2022 10:37:35 #
dpullum wrote:
If the bill passes the house, then this is the last time change... we will be on DLST forever.
"It’s happened: On Tuesday, the US Senate voted unanimously to make daylight saving time permanent beginning in 2023. Perhaps the unambiguous results were influenced by the fact that most of us just turned clocks forward on Sunday, and the disruptiveness of it is probably on lawmakers’ minds. "
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22979745/senate-daylight-saving-time-vote-good
"It’s happened: On Tuesday, the US Senate voted unanimously to make daylight saving time permanent beginning in 2023. Perhaps the unambiguous results were influenced by the fact that most of us just turned clocks forward on Sunday, and the disruptiveness of it is probably on lawmakers’ minds. "
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22979745/senate-daylight-saving-time-vote-good
I light of this I will leave my camera permanently on standard time in protest.
Mar 18, 2022 12:56:10 #
amfoto1
Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA
I often shoot with multiple cameras and need to have their clocks in sync so that the images will sort correctly.
It is amazing to me how quickly camera clocks get out of sync with each other. Apparently the clocks just aren't all that accurate and each loses or gains time in it's own way. They're significantly off by several seconds after just a few days or a week. After several weeks or a month they can be off by minutes.
As a result, before I go out and shoot I always connect my cameras to my desktop computer and sync the clocks to that. Once the camera is connected, a utility software from the camera maker makes this a quick, easy one-click process and the syncing brings them all within a fraction of a second of each other... good enough for a day or two.
My desktop is set up to calibrate itself (it syncs with an atomic clock online) and it automatically changes from Standard to DST in the Spring and back again in the Fall, but even if it didn't the self-calibration process would take care of it.
I think my cameras also automatically change to and from DST... But to be honest I really don't know. Because I'm doing the camera clock syncing anyway....and the computer is automated.... the change in all my cameras is also automated.
Yeah, like our government doesn't have better things to do!
What does it matter? DST all year round, Standard time all year round (Arizona), or continue to change back and forth as we've done for many years.
It really makes no practical difference that I can see. Even changing the clocks isn't difficult (now that no one uses VCRs any more ).
It is amazing to me how quickly camera clocks get out of sync with each other. Apparently the clocks just aren't all that accurate and each loses or gains time in it's own way. They're significantly off by several seconds after just a few days or a week. After several weeks or a month they can be off by minutes.
As a result, before I go out and shoot I always connect my cameras to my desktop computer and sync the clocks to that. Once the camera is connected, a utility software from the camera maker makes this a quick, easy one-click process and the syncing brings them all within a fraction of a second of each other... good enough for a day or two.
My desktop is set up to calibrate itself (it syncs with an atomic clock online) and it automatically changes from Standard to DST in the Spring and back again in the Fall, but even if it didn't the self-calibration process would take care of it.
I think my cameras also automatically change to and from DST... But to be honest I really don't know. Because I'm doing the camera clock syncing anyway....and the computer is automated.... the change in all my cameras is also automated.
dpullum wrote:
...If the bill passes the house, then this is the last time change... we will be on DLST forever....
Yeah, like our government doesn't have better things to do!
What does it matter? DST all year round, Standard time all year round (Arizona), or continue to change back and forth as we've done for many years.
It really makes no practical difference that I can see. Even changing the clocks isn't difficult (now that no one uses VCRs any more ).
Mar 18, 2022 13:10:08 #
BebuLamar wrote:
I light of this I will leave my camera permanently on standard time in protest.
"my camera" ... singular ? EZPZ.
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