Real times? I can't believe _you_ of all people said real time. <chuckle>
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/1/2015 4:34 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>
>> I'm toying with the notion of going to GMT, or, as I know it, Zulu Time,
>> on
>> my cameras. I believe it was Piers who first mentioned that. But then it's
>> easy when your time zone coincides with Zulu.
>>
>
> Yeah, Zulu time to me, too, one of the least troublesome remainders of the
> US military.
>
> I'm not going that way for a couple of reasons. One is that I tend to
> think about light when I look at images, and time of day is a crucial part
> of that relationship to the image. Sure, I can think what time of year it
> was, and add 7 or 8 hours in my head. But by then, I've left the affective
> relationship to the image(s) and gone into intellectual space.
>
> The other reason is geocoding. I've been doing that for several years and
> thousands of images. Most of that effort was speculation on future
> usefulness, with modest, but certainly useful, immediate payoff. Now with
> the recent capabilities of LR's Map mode, it's paying off beautifully. I
> haven't yet got around to starting the process of keywording my images, but
> the geographical view of them has solved a lot of things I thought only a
> major effort at keywording would do.
>
> Sooo, getting the GMT and offset in the geotrack files in sync with the
> time in the image files is important to me. Sure, I can set the offset in
> the process of coding, but I somehow like having the 'real' times.
>
> Spinning Globe Moose
>
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