End of Summertime - have you set your camera?

kevin_c wrote in post #2186040
First thing I changed this morning ...

Same here... of course, I changed all of the other clocks before I went to sleep last night.

ive not vchanged anything yet! too lazy! ill prob be confused about time for a good week or so yet!

haha

Summertime ended Man, have I missed it?

condyk wrote in post #2186110
Summertime ended Man, have I missed it?

Too much time wanderin around Brum and takin' pics of doors, and organising that liddle trip to afrika Dave.

SimonG wrote in post #2185648
Eh? Are you sure that you two weren't shooting in standard time all summer?

Your probably right about this as I bought the camera about a year ago and don't recall changing it in the spring.

Reset 'em last night - only to discover that in spite of being back 2 weeks, I hadn't reset the A620 from Greece time!

Hmm, thank goodness this forum was here!! I only had to set one clock in the house, all the others count DST.

I spent all morning resetting all the clocks in the house... and then the power went out this afternoon, so I get to do it all over again! I wish someone could explain the reason we do this to ourselves every 6 months... And no... I didn't set my camera (until I read this thread!)

No, I haven't done it, but thanks for the reminder. I'll do it in the AM.

Mark

Just did it. Now your going to have to remind me in the spring to change it again!

BeccaNH wrote in post #2187129
I spent all morning resetting all the clocks in the house... and then the power went out this afternoon, so I get to do it all over again! I wish someone could explain the reason we do this to ourselves every 6 months... And no... I didn't set my camera (until I read this thread!)

The idea is to move the sunrise back. It doesn't really affect southern latitudes, but for us northerners it really makes a difference. If we didn't do it, then it wouldn't be light until 9 or 10am...

lakiluno wrote in post #2190527
The idea is to move the sunrise back. It doesn't really affect southern latitudes, but for us northerners it really makes a difference. If we didn't do it, then it wouldn't be light until 9 or 10am...

very true.. as it is the sun isn't coming up until after eight in the morning and bound to be darker.. and usually goes down by 5:30... atleast in the valley so up here it could be even earlier i'm not going to see a whole lot of daylight hours this year...

sari

You're on the right track Leo. Daylight savings is done throughout the summer months because the powers that be figure that it makes more sense to have an extra hour of sunlight in the evening, where people will make use of it, as opposed to first thing in the morning when people are asleep anyways. The claims are that it will reduce power usage (somewhere in the range of 0.5 - 1% per day), since people don't have to turn lights on quite so early in the evening (of course, DST is really only effective during the four longest months of the year in Canada, but it will vary by location). In the winter the time goes back to standard because any savings caused by this would be offset by the extra hour of darkness in the morning.

Thanks for the reminder, but I don't think I changed it in the spring so it should be the right time. Will check it tonight when I get home in the dark.

Um, I'm not sure I ever set it to CDT. It's correct right now. Does the 5D do that for you?