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Has anyone else, non US I suppose, had this problem? If my suspicion is correct, the problem will go away after the US clocks go back.
It would be good if we stuck to GMT (+ or -) all year!
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I agree. However, 99% of the people that I know US have zero-idea what GMT is... Let alone the + or -.
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On the AVX menu I get down to daylight saving, but pressing enter doesn't do anything, it just drops you back to the menu with the time unchanged?
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Re: Mount Setup
Greenman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 11:47 am Ah, I have been controlling through CPWI, but my AVX was out last time I used it. I wonder if the handset is truly overridden?
On the AVX menu I get down to daylight saving, but pressing enter doesn't do anything, it just drops you back to the menu with the time unchanged?
Yes, my CGX is the same. Through CPWI, no problem, pc clock is used and alignment is ok. For visual with the hand controller, daylight saving or not is a choice of two options from the up and down. The clock remains the same.
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Sorry, a bit old school that. Does UT + or - work for your young friends?
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GMT is time 0, genuinely we are the Time Lords. Before Greenwich, there was no time.Graeme1858 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:24 pm
Sorry, a but old school that. Does UT + or - work for your young friends?
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Well, you can't criticise Celestron too much, at least they have consistentcy over the rangeGraeme1858 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:22 pmGreenman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 11:47 am Ah, I have been controlling through CPWI, but my AVX was out last time I used it. I wonder if the handset is truly overridden?
On the AVX menu I get down to daylight saving, but pressing enter doesn't do anything, it just drops you back to the menu with the time unchanged?
Yes, my CGX is the same. Through CPWI, no problem, pc clock is used and alignment is ok. For visual with the hand controller, daylight saving or not is a choice of two options from the up and down. The clock remains the same.
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Not exactly true.
Throughout early Maritime map making history many prime meridians have been used. Paris was used, Beijing was used, and many other prime meridians based on that country's capital were also used.
It wasn't until 1884 when American president Chester A Arthur called for an international convention that finally agreed that Greenwich should be the only prime
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Back in my days as a working stiff we ran all our network devices on Zulu time to make all the nationwide device logs be in sync all year long. Zulu time has the advantage of ignoring DST, staying on GMT Standard time all year round. It was amazing how much trouble newbies had figuring out how to deal with it
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I know quite a few people who do exactly that. Tell your mount that your time zone is
...And because using Greenwich as the Prime
Isaac Asimov wrote a short story about the problems the date line would cause if it were on dry land. It is set on a colonized Mars, and there is a city that straddles the date line. It causes problems for a thief who forgot about it and assumed his target would be vacant because it was a holiday. Except it wasn't.
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Only one... My next-door neighbor is an environmental biologist. The rest probably think UT is what time it is in the universe.Graeme1858 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:24 pm Sorry, a bit old school that. Does UT + or - work for your young friends?
In my little office the clock on the wall runs when it wants too. Rather than replace the clock, I put a sign beside it that says, "Notice! Time is what this stupid clock says (Sometimes)."
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KathyNS wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 11:57 am I know quite a few people who do exactly that. Tell your mount that your time zone is UTC+0, DST=No. Then use UTC for the date/time input, and you are good to go. Remember to have your lat/long set correctly to your location, so it can compute just how far you are from the centre of "your time zone".
Good shout! That sounds like the way forward.
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I'd chuck it all and go to UT on both devices, but that would make my better half cranky, and there is no fixing that.
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Come next Summer, the telescope will stay that way!
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Well, even a stopped 12 hour clock shows the right time twice a day. ;-)Lowjiber wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 11:59 amOnly one... My next-door neighbor is an environmental biologist. The rest probably think UT is what time it is in the universe.Graeme1858 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:24 pm Sorry, a bit old school that. Does UT + or - work for your young friends?
In my little office the clock on the wall runs when it wants too. Rather than replace the clock, I put a sign beside it that says, "Notice! Time is what this stupid clock says (Sometimes)."
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I wonder if a second cheapish clock that is always running GMT time would be a good idea?Graeme1858 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 4:25 pm Some great suggestions here but from Sunday I'll be on GMT for 6 months as will all of my clocks!
Come next Summer, the telescope will stay that way!
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