[Leica] DST

P H piers.hemy at gmail.com
Sat Mar 18 05:44:34 PDT 2023


I am solidly with Nathan on this, every camera set to UTC, even though it
appears I might have been enjoying the midnight sun in Tokyo. And as to the
admissibility of photos as evidence - who is to say that the time recorded
in EXIF was actually local clock time? And not 10 minutes adrift?

Piers

On Tue, 14 Mar 2023, 17:44 Douglas Barry, <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Tsk, tsk, Nathan, but what if you capture some heinous act happening in
> the background with your camera, and it transpires your photograph is
> needed for evidentiary purposes? The defence legal team could attempt to
> have it set aside because of the timing discrepency, and the miscreant
> might escape justice.
> :-)
>
> In truth, I'm generally well into June by the time I remember and change
> the date on my cameras. Maybe not so important in Europe where the
> murder rate is lower...
>
> Douglas
>
>
> On 14/03/2023 05:36, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> > I never change the time on my cameras. So they are off by 1 hour half of
> the year—no big deal, or not even a small deal.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nathan
> >
> > Nathan Wajsman
> > photo at frozenlight.eu
> >
> > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> > http://www.greatpix.eu
> > http://www.frozenlight.eu
> >
> > Слава Україні! Героям слава!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On 13 Mar 2023, at 13:11, JAMES HANDSFIELD <jhandsfield at att.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> If you’re in the US or other countries that change time, remember to
> reset your cameras.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Jim Handsfield
> >> jhandsfield at att.net
> >>
> >> “Thou shalt not commit nincompoopery.”
> >> — Carl Sandburg
> >>
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