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Why is the daylight saving time option stored in user profiles?

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Just wondered if anyone knew why the M240 stores the daylight saving time setting in the user profiles?

 

It seems a bit bonkers as you have to go through and update all your profiles every 6 months - I've given up now and just update the time instead. Did have me puzzled for a short while when I couldn't work out why the time kept going off  :unsure:

 

Jonathan

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jaapv

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TBH, I never even noticed. I do look at the date of my photographs some times, if only for organizing them, but have never actually taken notice of the time stamp.

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The reason is that the  camera has no operating system with 'network time' (no persistent WiFi), although it could have something based upon GPS or Cellular but neither of those work properly. A rationalization is that for someone who changes timezones often can have a ready store in their profiles to just manually choose. Ach, that doesn't really fly, either.

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I travel across many timezones on a regular basis.  I have my camera's time set to GMT.  After my images are imported into Lightroom I select all the images from the same time zone and use Lightroom's Capture Time option to change those files time to the time zone they were captured.  No need to worry about resetting the camera's internal time for what time zone you're in or daylight savings time changes.

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I think timezones and daylight saving crap are medieval.

 

UTC should be used everywhere...

...and I think all people in UK will have no problem with that ;)

 

As Cheshire knows, not all US States honor daylight savings time. As I've written earlier, there is a Native American territory that does not honor DST, and it is surrounded by others that do. It is a boon to bar time closings at the borders.

 

Anyone with a 240 can tell us if Leica's implementation works. I do not think it does.

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With the extra one hour of sunlight that DLS brings, means that one doesn't need a Lux where a APO-CRON will suffice.

 

But the downside with the extra one hour of sunlight, you may need to use a ND filter more often...... :rolleyes:  :lol:  :rolleyes:

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Just wondered if anyone knew why the M240 stores the daylight saving time setting in the user profiles?

 

It seems a bit bonkers as you have to go through and update all your profiles every 6 months - I've given up now and just update the time instead. Did have me puzzled for a short while when I couldn't work out why the time kept going off  :unsure:

 

Jonathan

It's not only a bit bonkers. It is simply bad design: you can either use user profiles or DST/Time zones, but not both. But as you can see from the reactions here not many users seem to care -- some even regard it as a feature. I have reported this to Leica but have been ignored.

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