#16 Ability to use other timezones when importing images

[draco]

I have the timezone on my camera set differently than on my PC, so every time I import images, they default to the wrong time zone. Rather than manually changing the time zone each time, I changed the import routine to automatically use my last selected timezone. This would probably be even better as a "Settings" option, though.

Here is my change to org.fibs.geotag.data.ImageInfo, setGpsDateTime() method:
format.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone(Settings.get(SETTING.LAST_USED_TIMEZONE, format.getTimeZone().getID())));

[Chris Chiappa]

Yah, I would appreciate this as well - I keep my cameras in GMT and adjust the time stamps later, so I would like a default time zone of +00 rather than -04 like geotag gives me by default.

[William Blaylock]

As I just stated in the general forums there are several very valid reasons why one would want to possibly even per image change the offset.

So I am adding my third here now.

I use geotag because it understands my pentax RAW files but as an example the at least one compacts consumer cameras included software deals very elegantly with shooting on both sides of a timezone line in a short period of time.

The GPS knows which timezone you are standing in and I suspect there are few people who would take the time to look at the GPS clock and reset the camera every stop just to take a couple pictures and move on to the next stop.