StampMeRight
New
Norway
Offline
|
I have been very frustated by the Osmo Action for a while, because it had a tendency to suddenly start adding +1 hour to the clips which the camera creates. Since it adds +1 hour, it only seems logical that the camera has an automatic adjustment to compensate for "Daylight Saving Time".
This feature seems to be a bit poorly implemented, or we could call it a "bug", which even might have confused the creators of the firmware. I recently did some tests to verify that it indeed has something to do with a "Daylight Saving Time" feature of the Osmo Action.
I created one clip for every month, with the Osmo Action, by quickly changing the month in the camera-settings-menu before each clip. It got to my attention that it created some months with the correct timestamp, but it also created some months with an incorrect timestamp. I narrowed it down further, and noticed that the problem ocurred in march and in october, at exactly march 27 and in october 30.
These are the two exact dates for when we adjust for "Daylight Saving Time" or "Summer Time" in 2022. This test verifies that the Osmo Action's implementation of the automatic adjustment for "Daylight Saving Time", is a bit poorly made. For the users, the confusion mainly occurs because the time-adjustment-setting in the camera-settings-menu does not visually change (by it automatically adding +1 hour as well) when the cameras adjustment for "Daylight Saving Time" (or "Summer Time") automatically kicks in at march 27. If the developers had also made sure that the time-adjustment-setting in the camera-settings-menu had also automatically incremented with +1 hour when "Summer Time" kicked in, and with -1 hour when "Winter Time" kicks in, then a lot of frustration and confusion would have been avoided.
To counter-attack this "bug", we need to remember to set time according with "Standard Time" ("Normal Time", "Winter Time") only, no matter what date of the year we are in, and just let the time-adjustment setting be left alone for the most part, and to just let the automatic adjustment do it's thing when it adjusts for them. I have been frustrated and mad at this "bug" several times, but now as we know why it happens, we can easily get the settings straight once and for all.
It does not seem like we have a possibility to turn off the automatic adjustment for "Daylight Saving Time", which could create further problems in the future, if the world leaders suddenly decided to ditch the whole "Daylight Saving Time" thing once and for all. |
|