Daylight savings (Page 4): I have two homes now, one in each time zone, so I don't have to change clocks or camera time. Works well, but my garden doesn't grow as well in the eastern...

thelazya Loc: Wendell, MN

I have two homes now, one in each time zone, so I don't have to change clocks or camera time. Works well, but my garden doesn't grow as well in the eastern time zone? Any answers to that? Love it when the days get longer, but that means nights get shorter? I need my naps.

marki3rd Loc: Columbus, Indiana

boberic wrote:

Do I have to change the clock in my 7d or will it change automatically.? Just a thought here but I allways thought that the changes from from stsndard to daylight savings is sort of like trying to make an 11 foot rope out of a 10 foot rope by cutting 1 foot off 1 end and attaching to the other end.

I don't know about other camera mfg's, but Canon has a neat program called "EOS Utility". If you go into "Preferences -Time Settings" in EOS Utility you can select "Always Match Computer Time".

Then, when you connect your Canon camera to your computer using the supplied USB cable and fire up EOS Utility, the camera's Date and Time is automagicly set to your computers time. Easy!!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

thelazya wrote:

Works well, but my garden doesn't grow as well in the eastern time zone?

You're obviously trying to grow flowers that you brought from your western time zone home. Eastern flowers are bred to grow in the eastern time zone. They adapt to the change from DST to EDT. (I'll add the :D, but I hope it isn't necessary.)

hamtrack Loc: Omaha NE

People in Arizona don't know how to change time on clocks. Especially the digital guess how you do it because it's hidden and you can't find the dang thing. And all the cows are much happier because they don't have to get up earlier. Neither do the tomato's.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

marki3rd wrote:

I don't know about other camera mfg's, but Canon has a neat program called "EOS Utility", If you go into "Preferences -Time Settings" in EOS Utility you can select "Always Match Computer Time".

Then, when you connect your Canon camera to your computer using the supplied USB cable and fire up EOS Utility, the camera's Date and Time is automagicly set to your computers time. Easy!!

Nikon has the option of Auto DST switching through the Menu.

D610 Manual, Page 253

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

hamtrack wrote:

People in Arizona don't know how to change time on clocks. Especially the digital guess how you do it because it's hidden and you can't find the dang thing. And all the cows are much happier because they don't have to get up earlier. Neither do the tomato's.

As more and more clocks set themselves automatically, people will forget how to do that themselves.

I have a combo thermometer/clock that sets itself according to the atomic clock. It has the hour right, but the minutes are thirteen minutes behind.

Canonuser Loc: UK and South Africa

Flyerace wrote:

I will check out that swirling water, toilet flushing theory myself. Leaving for NZ on Saturday.

Water going down sink plugs definitely circles the opposite way in the Southern Hemisphere to what it does in the Northern Hemisphere. We see this every day in South Africa. However the same cannot be said of toilet flushes. This depends on the way the cistern has been designed. The water will always swirl in the way the design makes it turn and the influence of being in either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere is not strong enough to alter the direction.

marki3rd Loc: Columbus, Indiana

jerryc41 wrote:

Nikon has the option of Auto DST switching through the Menu.

Well, everyone knows Nikon is better :roll:

Dlevon Loc: New Jersey

boberic wrote:

Do I have to change the clock in my 7d or will it change automatically.? Just a thought here but I allways thought that the changes from from stsndard to daylight savings is sort of like trying to make an 11 foot rope out of a 10 foot rope by cutting 1 foot off 1 end and attaching to the other end.

Why bother? How critical is the time. Remember the real time is not DST!

thelazya Loc: Wendell, MN

Dlevon wrote:

Why bother? How critical is the time. Remember the real time is not DST!

OMG we are living in fake time? I knew it! Obama is not real!!

James Shaw

Gee, if I "Spring Forward" with my clocks, will my flowers bloom earlier?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

thelazya wrote:

OMG we are living in fake time?!

For years, people have been trying to get a worldwide time standard, so it would be the same time wherever you go. They are calling it Esperantime, and they are hoping that when this catches on, it will give a boost to their efforts to standardize Esperanto. :D

James Shaw

Canonuser wrote:

Water going down sink plugs definitely circles the opposite way in the Southern Hemisphere to what it does in the Northern Hemisphere. We see this every day in South Africa. However the same cannot be said of toilet flushes. This depends on the way the cistern has been designed. The water will always swirl in the way the design makes it turn and the influence of being in either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere is not strong enough to alter the direction.

Great info. Now that I think about it, after reading your post, it makes sense that the water in the reservoir on the top of the toilet has force of its own, and its circular motion path is therefore not necessarily that of a gravity-pull, as it is from a sink or bathtub.
Thanks for the post.

thelazya Loc: Wendell, MN

jerryc41 wrote:

For years, people have been trying to get a worldwide time standard, so it would be the same time wherever you go. They are calling it Esperantime, and they are hoping that when this catches on, it will give a boost to their efforts to standardize Esperanto. :D

Finally an answer to my dilemma. TY

NoSocks Loc: quonochontaug, rhode island

Willy wrote:

When told the reason for daylight saving time the old Indian said
Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.

that might be true, but who wants dawn at 4:00 in the morning? 5 AM is bad enough.