Best Time to Change Daylight Savings in Keypad
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This Saturday is the end of daylight savings. The weather is going to be bad this weekend, so I don't have to worry about the time change while I am observing, but this raises a good question when the best time is to change the daylight savings setting in the Keypad from S to W.
Mike
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I should clarify my question to ask if it is OK to change the keypad to standard time before daylight savings ends, or do I need to wait until after we are back on standard time.
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Mike, from much faded memory, can you set the keypad to get the date from your computer? It will of course update automatically. The CP control box does if set properly. I “think”. Stuart
On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 1:56 PM M Hambrick <mhambrick563@...> wrote: I should clarify my question to ask if it is OK to change the keypad to standard time before daylight savings ends, or do I need to wait until after we are back on standard time. --
Stuart Heggie
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Roland Christen
Changing the time from daylight savings to standard can be done any time. It changes nothing as far as operation of the mount.
Rolando
-----Original Message-----
From: M Hambrick <mhambrick563@...> To: main@ap-gto.groups.io Sent: Fri, Nov 4, 2022 7:56 am Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Best Time to Change Daylight Savings in Keypad I should clarify my question to ask if it is OK to change the keypad to standard time before daylight savings ends, or do I need to wait until after we are back on standard time.
-- Roland Christen Astro-Physics
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I always set my hand controllers to UT and never worry about DST. "Always take the high road. There's less traffic." Observatory Engineer Summit Kinetics Waikoloa, Hawaii
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If you have the hand controller set to UT so that you do not have to mess with the semi-annual change in time, but you connect a program on your computer, like SkyTools, to locate targets, do you have to define your observatory location as being on UT?
Yours truly,
Jack
Jack Huerkamp Jack's Astro Accessories, LLC 38388 Pine Street Pearl River, LA 70452-5192 985-445-5063 30.37N 89.76W
All of us get lost in the darkness. ………………………………….Neil Peart
From: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> On Behalf Of Christopher Erickson
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2022 2:18 PM To: main@ap-gto.groups.io Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Best Time to Change Daylight Savings in Keypad
I always set my hand controllers to UT and never worry about DST. "Always take the high road. There's less traffic."
-Christopher Erickson Observatory Engineer Summit Kinetics Waikoloa, Hawaii
On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 9:01 AM Roland Christen via groups.io <chris1011=aol.com@groups.io> wrote:
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In any observatory I set up, I set EVERYTHING in the observatory to UT. "Always take the high road. There's less traffic." Observatory Engineer Summit Kinetics Waikoloa, Hawaii
On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 10:47 AM Jack Huerkamp <Mallincamusa@...> wrote:
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Christopher,
Do you set the computer time to UT or set the PC clock to local time and set your astronomy applications to UT?
Jack
Jack Huerkamp Jack's Astro Accessories, LLC 38388 Pine Street Pearl River, LA 70452-5192 985-445-5063 30.37N 89.76W
All of us get lost in the darkness. ………………………………….Neil Peart
From: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> On Behalf Of Christopher Erickson
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2022 3:50 PM To: main@ap-gto.groups.io Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Best Time to Change Daylight Savings in Keypad
In any observatory I set up, I set EVERYTHING in the observatory to UT. "Always take the high road. There's less traffic."
-Christopher Erickson Observatory Engineer Summit Kinetics Waikoloa, Hawaii
On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 10:47 AM Jack Huerkamp <Mallincamusa@...> wrote:
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Arvind
Quoting this from the keypad manual: Running everything on UTC is a great way to do things if the laptop is completely dedicated to astronomy endeavors. Some professional astronomers set everything including their lives to UTC. The main thing to remember is that EVERYTHING needs to be set to UTC. Normal commercial software intended for amateurs will often want to default you to a time zone. Once you have everything set up though, it’s awesome.
On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 15:29 Jack Huerkamp <Mallincamusa@...> wrote:
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Thank you,
Jack
Jack Huerkamp Jack's Astro Accessories, LLC 38388 Pine Street Pearl River, LA 70452-5192 985-445-5063 30.37N 89.76W
All of us get lost in the darkness. ………………………………….Neil Peart
From: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> On Behalf Of Arvind
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2022 6:10 PM To: main@ap-gto.groups.io Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Best Time to Change Daylight Savings in Keypad
Quoting this from the keypad manual:
Running everything on UTC is a great way to do things if the laptop is completely dedicated to astronomy endeavors. Some professional astronomers set everything including their lives to UTC. The main thing to remember is that EVERYTHING needs to be set to UTC. Normal commercial software intended for amateurs will often want to default you to a time zone. Once you have everything set up though, it’s awesome.
On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 15:29 Jack Huerkamp <Mallincamusa@...> wrote:
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EVERYTHING to UTC and TZ 0. Lat/Lon/Alt are set to local coordinates.
On Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 12:29 PM Jack Huerkamp <Mallincamusa@...> wrote:
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If I had a dedicated computer for astronomy I would go to UT. In any case I powered up the CP4 with the keypad connected (but not the mount motors) and changed the time this evening.
I am running the V5.010 software, so it was easy to change to standard time, but first I had to change the Auto-connect setting from EXT to NO. I got a motor stall error when I made the time standard change. I am not sure what that was all about. Hopefully just something to do with not having the mount motors connected to the CP4. Mike
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