Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

How many people forget to set the new time in their camera when changing time zones?
My phone adjusted itself, but I forgot to change the camera as my travels are usually North/South within the same time zone.

So all my shot times for my last trip are off by five hours now. At least they are still in chronological order.

THAT won't happen again!

Haenzel Loc: South Holland, The Netherlands

You can always change the time in the exif data of the pictures....

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

750 images, one by one?
I doubt you can just shotgun add 5 hours to the existing time, keeping the existing minutes and date.
Not worth it.
Lesson learned.

BudsOwl Loc: Upstate NY and New England

Set your camera to Zulu time and you never have to change it.

Haenzel Loc: South Holland, The Netherlands

No, you can change them in one batch

Bob Mevis Loc: Plymouth, Indiana

Time zones, never heard of them... LOL!!

Bill_de Loc: US

Google it. There are programs that will do batch exif edits.

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Just the hour?
With what program?

Haenzel Loc: South Holland, The Netherlands

Lightroom, ExifTool, JHead

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

I don't need any greater accuracy than the day an image was taken, and more often than not even the exact date of the capture is not that critical, so time zone differences have never been an issue for me so far.

fetzler Loc: North West PA

I concur.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Hmmm. I'll have to look at that as I have ExifTool.
-AllDates parameter.

THANKS!

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

Besides EXIF editing tools, there are also lots of file managers that allow you to modify file attributes like the dates and time. I personally use Directory Opus on my Windows PC, but there are a number of other choices.

User ID

Nothing is "off". The clocks where you
traveled read 5 hours differently than
the clocks where you live. A nonissue.
Has nothing to do with knowing when
a shot was recorded. What the locals
"name" that hour is simply their local
name for it. THEIR name for it is not
YOUR name for it. The UK quit the EU
at 6pm my time. I know when that is,
and nothing about it changes merely
cuz in the UK they called it 11pm, or
in Brussels they call it midnight.

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Time-of-day is not a "hard reality". It's
just an arbitrary reference point. Best
to keep your reference point constant
and invariable.

No need to reset time zones when you
travel and very good reason NOT to do
so. Frinstintz, so I shoot at sunset in a
European town ... and I live in the USA
East Coast time zone. That shot made
at sunset was made at 2:37pm Eastern
Std time [USA]. Thaz real information.
That it was shot at 7:37pm local time is
merely another way of saying the same
the same thing ... but it messes up your
filing system to use a different time zone
than is in use by your filing system, IOW
in use by your computer.

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Basically the above is why we have GMT
aka UTC. I keep all my devices on GMT.
Tells me which way the Earth was aimed
when the shot was made, which is all a
clock ever tells you no matter what zone
you prefer. The important thing is always
use the same zone ... usually your home
zone or GMT.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

My mind likes time relative to the location.
To me it's off, to you not so much.
It's all relative.

If I use GMT then I have to add 5 hours for everything here where I live.
Shots in question were tagged at 5:30 AM were really taken at 10:30 AM, local time....
(I was sleeping at 5:30 AM.)
I doesn't "mess up" my filing system as there was nothing taken in my home time zone those days.
There is no conflict.
Local time/GMT it's all relative.
I really don't want to know what time it was at home when I took a shot in another time zone.
To me, time is relative to where I am when I took the shot.

ExifTool can shotgun the date taken on all images adding 5 hours, keeping minutes and seconds.
(I'll just keep tabs on the date if there was a shot after 7:00PM.)