> On Jan 22, 2024, at 2:07 PM, Bob W PDML <pdm...@icloud.com> wrote: > >> On 22 Jan 2024, at 21:36, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Can it reset the clock to LOCAL time? >> >> That's the biggest problem I have with the clock - traveling to a different >> time zone and forgetting to set the camera's clock to the correct time zone, >> i.e. I have the camera set to "New York" (because it doesn't have a setting >> for "Eastern" time or "Raleigh, NC" and I'm in Albuquerque ... or halfway >> round the world, so the clock may be off anywhere 2 to 12 hours. >> > > I’d expect the satellites to transmit UTC. Local time is a function of UTC > and the time zone offset and savings time, derived from the GPS coordinates. > > If I were you I’d set all my cameras to UTC, then you shouldn’t have any > problems merging image files from different cameras and getting the date/time > sorting all stuffed up.
I have actually been seriously considering changing my cameras to GMT or UTC, and not have to worry about DST, time zones or anything like that. I've also taken photos of the time on my phone with the K-3iii or the Lumix to help sync the times in lightroom. > > Then photograph a town name from time to time so you have an embedded record > of where you were. Modern operating systems can recognise and select text in > image files, so you can copy and paste it into the metadata if you want to. In theory, you can get that information from the GPS you know. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from ret13est -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
