Upcoming Events: World Pentax Day and Pentax SyncSnap!

[ZurichSaddler]

Originally Posted by RichardS

Um. I think I might be having a senior's moment. October 17 is a Saturday. So midnight on Saturday should be the transition between Saturday and Sunday. That would make it 7:00 pm Saturday in New York, NY, USA (ignoring daylight savings) and 10:00 am Sunday in Melbourne, VIC, Oz (again, ignoring daylight savings).

I think. Or have I got it totally wrong?

Richard.

Adam is correct. A day starts at midnight (12.00am), so midnight on the 17th October is the transition from Friday to Saturday. So (ignoring daylight saving):

London 12.00am Saturday 17th Oct
Central Europe 1.00am Saturday 17th Oct
Sydney 10.00am Saturday 17th Oct
New York 7.00pm Friday 16th Oct
LA 4.00pm Friday 16th Oct

Hope that helps (and I'm right)!

[code4code5]

That's a neat idea! I love the idea of thousands of Pentax shutters all clicking away at once.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by ZurichSaddler

Adam is correct. A day starts at midnight (12.00am), so midnight on the 17th October is the transition from Friday to Saturday. So (ignoring daylight saving):

London 12.00am Saturday 17th Oct
Central Europe 1.00am Saturday 17th Oct
Sydney 10.00am Saturday 17th Oct
New York 7.00pm Friday 16th Oct
LA 4.00pm Friday 16th Oct

Hope that helps (and I'm right)!

I'm going to include that list on the first post of this thread. I'll adjust them for DST in the US.

[monochrome]

Here's an idea to help sync your shot with a digital Pentax camera

1. Enable World Time in Settings Menu
2. If not set up yet, make your Hometown whatever corresponds to your Time Zone, wherever you will be when you take the shot.
3. Make your Destination City London
4. That will tell you how many hours time difference between you and GMT - taking into account Daylight Savings Time in North America/Canada or Summer Time in Europe.
   1. I will be in St. Louis, Missouri, USA 10/17. We are on Daylight Savings Time. Chicago is the Hometown City that corresponds to my Time Zone.
   2. October and November are tricky because the end dates for DST in the US/Canada and Summer Time/DST in Europe are different. The UK has Summer Time, Western European Time, or GMT +1, until October 25th, so our clocks should be sync'ed on the 17th. On October 17th I will be GMT -6. The automatic clock in the camera MIGHT not properly compensate for DST because the US Congress recently changed the DST start and end dates to "save energy."
5. If you want your EXIF to show your actual time and location then deselect World Time and/or select Hometown as your location.
   1. If you want to add a bit of synchronicity to the whole thing, leave World Time enabled, select Destination City as your location and manually deselect Daylight Savings Time - your EXIF will list London location and time for the shot (GMT +0, BST). Be sure to compensate for DST when you take your shot.
6. If you will be / are away from your Hometown when you take your shot, change your Hometown to wherever you will be / are and do the same thing.

[RichardS]

Originally Posted by ZurichSaddler

Adam is correct. A day starts at midnight (12.00am), so midnight on the 17th October is the transition from Friday to Saturday. So (ignoring daylight saving):

London 12.00am Saturday 17th Oct
Central Europe 1.00am Saturday 17th Oct
Sydney 10.00am Saturday 17th Oct
New York 7.00pm Friday 16th Oct
LA 4.00pm Friday 16th Oct

Hope that helps (and I'm right)!

I think this must be a cultural difference thing. In English the day ends at midnight, which is 24:00 hrs not 00:00 hrs. I seem to remember similar confusion with friends who's first language is German. I said I'd pick them up at half 12 (meaning half past 12). They phoned soon after half past 11 wondering where I was Maybe Americans have got it wrong too

But, that's beside the point. The shutters will click in Melbourne (and Sydney) at 11:00am on Saturday 17th Oct. Daylight savings starts on 4/10/2009. 10:00am in Brisbane because they don't have daylight savings.

Richard.

[jbinpg]

Hi, Adam. I probably come off sounding like a pedant here, but we should be using UTC and not GMT:


GMT vs. UTC - An Overview of GMT and UTC

Jack

[monochrome]

Originally Posted by RichardS

I think this must be a cultural difference thing. In English the day ends at midnight, which is 24:00 hrs not 00:00 hrs. I seem to remember similar confusion with friends who's first language is German. I said I'd pick them up at half 12 (meaning half past 12). They phoned soon after half past 11 wondering where I was Maybe Americans have got it wrong too

But, that's beside the point. The shutters will click in Melbourne (and Sydney) at 11:00am on Saturday 17th Oct. Daylight savings starts on 4/10/2009. 10:00am in Brisbane because they don't have daylight savings.

Richard.

Um, I don't think there is a 24:00.00. There is only a 23:59:59. Then there is 00:00:00. That is called midnight. 00:00:01 is called the next day. Since time is recorded at the END of each minute and second, if you count both 00:00:00 and 24:00:00 you will add one second to each day.

"UTC is 24-hour time, which begins at 0:00 at midnight. 12:00 is noon, 13:00 is 1 p.m., 14:00 is 2 p.m. and so on until 23:59, which is 11:59 p.m."

[RichardS]

Originally Posted by monochrome

Um, I don't think there is a 24:00.00. There is only a 23:59:59. Then there is 00:00:00. That is called midnight. 00:00:01 is called the next day. Since time is recorded at the END of each minute and second, if you count both 00:00:00 and 24:00:00 you will add one second to each day.

"UTC is 24-hour time, which begins at 0:00 at midnight. 12:00 is noon, 13:00 is 1 p.m., 14:00 is 2 p.m. and so on until 23:59, which is 11:59 p.m."

24:00:00 may not exist officially, but it's the same time as 00:00:00. I guess that there's no 12:00:00 in the 12 hour system either, but people still refer to 12 midnight and 12 noon.

Richard.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by jbinpg

Hi, Adam. I probably come off sounding like a pedant here, but we should be using UTC and not GMT:


GMT vs. UTC - An Overview of GMT and UTC

Jack

I'm sure you guys still know what we mean- especially since I've now added the time key to the original post.

[Arpe]

Are we sure all the similtaneous clicking of shutters won't throw the earth off its axis? Or speed it up or slow it down? I'm worried.

[RichardS]

Originally Posted by Adam

I'm sure you guys still know what we mean- especially since I've now added the time key to the original post.

Hi Adam, Just a slight correction needed. Sydney and Melbourne will be on daylight savings time from 4 October 2009. Brisbane stays on standard time. So it's

Sydney 11:00am Saturday 17th Oct
Brisbane 10:00am Saturday 17th Oct.

Yeah, it causes confusion here too

Richard.

[ZurichSaddler]

Originally Posted by RichardS

I think this must be a cultural difference thing. In English the day ends at midnight, which is 24:00 hrs not 00:00 hrs. I seem to remember similar confusion with friends who's first language is German. I said I'd pick them up at half 12 (meaning half past 12). They phoned soon after half past 11 wondering where I was Maybe Americans have got it wrong too

But, that's beside the point. The shutters will click in Melbourne (and Sydney) at 11:00am on Saturday 17th Oct. Daylight savings starts on 4/10/2009. 10:00am in Brisbane because they don't have daylight savings.

Richard.

Problem is my first language is English but maybe I've slowly turned Germanic over the years. Anyway it seems us Europeans get the short straw, I'll be up at 1am to take my photo whereas the Americans get the nice evening light and the people in Oceania get the morning light! Seems somewhat unfair to me!

PS I know what you mean about the times, took me 6 months to get it right!

[Shantz]

Any room for the Samsung users to these events? Otherwise I'll have to go buy a film for my Pentax SFX :P

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Shantz

Any room for the Samsung users to these events? Otherwise I'll have to go buy a film for my Pentax SFX :P

Samsung DSLRs that are Pentax clones are allowed, yes.

[scatron]

Originally Posted by stevebrot

I get the SyncSnap thing, but was curious as to how often World Pentax Day comes along. I could swear that World Pentax Day happened back on April 4. Is this a twice yearly event?

Yes - twice yearly.