Time for Change-Daylight Savings Time Again

March 12, 2011 under Camera, EXIF, GEOCoding

As an IT guy, Daylight Savings Time is a royal pain.  I understand the genesis of it but I think it has long since outlived its usefulness.  And when the government changed the weekends of the change (both fall and spring), I believe it caused a lot more actual issues than Y2K.  Our minivan clock was set by satellite and was always off by an hour each fall and spring without intervention.

Regardless of the perceived usefulness, we still need to embrace it with all of its glory.

We all know of the usual semi-annual checklist that we do this weekend:

  • change batteries in smoke detectors
  • change clocks

However, the one that people always seem to forget is setting their clock on their camera.  Several times I have to adjust the “digitized time” by an hour for months of pictures at a time for relatives.  The importance of this becomes magnified when you have an external GPS.  Time is how the data gets applied to the pictures.  So instead of just add/subtracting an hour, actually “calibrate” the time so that they exactly match up.

Finally, don’t be late for church…can’t use it for an excuse.

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What I want

September 13, 2006 under Camera

My wife urged me to enter the Meijer “It’s What I Want” contest.  Basic premise is that you take a picture of what you want and tell why you need it.

I chose the Canon EOS XT digital camera.  Our camera had died 3 times in the last year (all warranty claims).  Last year, it died on the first day of Kindergarten (hence the caption).  About it a month ago, it died on our vacation to visit my sister in California.  She let us borrow her EOS and I loved it.  A great camera.

 

Please click here and vote for mine (picture below)…so that I can win.

 

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