(meteorobs) OT- Changing Sentinel to show Universal Time.

[Chris Peterson]

Warning! That Windows timezone setting will not give you UT on your machine, 
because that setting reflects the use of daylight saving time in Dublin, et. 
al. I've found that unchecking the setting adjust for daylight time is 
unreliable. Some services and time setting programs can reset it, and time 
setting programs don't always pay attention to it.

Instead, set the timezone to (GMT) Casablanca. This will always be 
equivalent to UT, since Casablanca does not observe daylight saving time.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "stange" <stange34 at sbcglobal.net>
To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 12:01 PM
Subject: (meteorobs) OT- Changing Sentinel to show Universal Time.


> To any who might still be having difficulties in getting Sentinel to 
> record
> in UT with an XP.
>
> 1. Close the Sentinel program. Open the XP's "CONTROL PANEL".
> 2. Click "Date, Time, Language and Regional Options".
> 3. Click "change format the format of numbers,dates, and times"
> 4. Click the "Customize" tab
> 5. Click the "Time" tab
> 6. In the "Time format" select HH:mm:ss
> 7. In the "Time separator" select the colon. Sentinel does not (display)
> time in decimal
> 8. Click APPLY(if highlighted), and click OK at the bottom
> 9. Click the OK in the "Regional and Languages" screen
> 10. Click "Change the date and time"
> 11. Click the "Time Zone" tab
> 12. Select "(GMT) Greenwhich Mean Time" Dublin, Edinbergh, .... etc.
> 13. Uncheck "Automatically adjust clock for daylight savings changes" if 
> box
> is checked
> 14. Click APPLY
> 15. Click the "Date & Time" tab
> 16. Set the Calendar and time to actual Universal time. Click APPLY
> 17. Click OK and then Click the CLOSE button on the control panel screen
> 11. Shut down & Restart the computer
> 12. Open the Sentinel program. Set the START & STOP times in Universal 
> Time
> 13. Place Sentinel in Watch mode with normal settings
> 14. For convienance, click on Sentinels "LOG" tab and select  "OPEN LOG
> WINDOW"
> 14. Briefly disconnect camera input to Sentinel box and reconnect
> 15. Sentinel will record this as a trigger either as a "Time of day skip" 
> or
> an "Event"
>    The "Log" window will show it in Universal Time, as will the EVENT &
> EXPOSURE files of Sentinel...... Sentinel is now synched with the XP
> computer in UT.
> -YCSentinel