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DST on R5

Started 2 weeks ago | Questions thread
Mark B.
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Re: DST on R5

PDE94301 wrote:

Mark B. wrote:

PDE94301 wrote:

I believe the answer is no, but can the R5 automatically switch its onboard clock 1 hour forward in March, and back again in November?

The only way that could happen is if the camera had a continuous cellular or internet connection.

Not sure I follow why that's the case. If you tell it what city's time zone you're in it should know when to flip the clock. For example, in '23 it would change time in LA time zone on March 12 & Nov 5, in London on Mar 26/Oct 29, in Tokyo it wouldn't change, etc. I think you could simply have a table of selectable cities in the firmware to automate this. If in the future if countries adopt or abandon DST then future firmware updates would capture that. That doesn't seem overly difficult to me.

Too many variables for camera companies to keep up with.

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