Shanghai Yummy

Most of my clocks are set to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), including this blog. The main reason for this is that it's much easier to convert from UTC to local time when traveling. Especially when going through photo archives from my digital camera, it's much easier to figure out exact what date and time a photo was taken locally by simply making the adjustment to or from UTC for that particular locale on that particular date. For example, daylight savings time is different for different parts of the world. With my clock set to "home" time, I'd have to remember whether "home" was on DST or not, plus whether the location of the photo was on DST, plus the UTC offsets for both locations. With my clock set to UTC, I only have to know where the photo was taken, and on what date, to know what the local time was.

The two exceptions are my computer, which is currently set to US PDT, and my car, which doesn't move through as many time zones so I just leave it set to wherever I am.

So why the long entry about such a randomly boring topic? Well, because I want it all, remember. I want my digital camera to have a GPS unit, so that I can put not only a date and time stamp on it, but a location stamp. And based on that location, I'd be able to display the time locally or as UTC as I choose...
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