Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/03/18

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Subject: [Leica] DST
From: piers.hemy at gmail.com (P H)
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 12:44:34 +0000
References: <CBB742DC-C085-480A-BD8F-FDB25E224F05.ref@att.net> <CBB742DC-C085-480A-BD8F-FDB25E224F05@att.net> <74A5A827-5BD6-43E3-BE00-681BC06438F1@frozenlight.eu> <70232746-8bbd-6bc6-ffa4-56f415e4c4d2@iol.ie>

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
> >
> > ????? ???????! ?????? ?????!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> 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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In reply to: Message from jhandsfield at att.net (JAMES HANDSFIELD) ([Leica] DST)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] DST)
Message from imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] DST)