defbear
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This has been staring at me in the face for days. Right there all along. Hillbilly had done a nice post on Aug 8th saying he was fooling with the sdcard. Really nice that you are still plugging away Hillbilly. Someone else had put an old 1gb card in and thought they got the date back for a while. Between the two posts, it hit me. I've been keeping my camera plugged in all night. GPS on and parking mode off. Just to make sure the GPS battery is charged up. The creation date of 1.008 is 07-25-13 10:15. During the update some of us had our clocks default to that date. Ok so right now my camera says its 7-28-13 11:59. I Power down and load the sd chip into my Win7 PC. I delete the contents of the Record folder. Boot up and YES I find my date back to 7-25-13. The camera seems to be checking that folder to see the date and time. I've been looking at the creation date of the files created in there. I should have looked at the names of the files. Not the creation 'tag'.
So it let the camera create a couple of short videos. Took the sd card back to the PC. Each video has 3 files associated with it. They all have the same name with different file extensions. They are :'date'.mp4, 'date'.gps and 'date'.3gf.
I renamed all three to the current date and time, keeping the file extensions intact. I booted my camera. It now displays the date I put in.
Here is the bad news fellow Clockers. After you power down for the night, and then power up in the morning, is the time and date correct for today's new videos, or did the camera pick up where it left off last night by reading the card?
It's too late to go into GPS battery's vs software dissertation. Buh! We Clockers had working, updating, cameras before the update. There are also log files that reference the software build installed. And it doesn't say 1.008. How many different builds of Win7 are there. Perhaps there are some tweaks besides the language in 1.008. Just speculation. If you can program for different bit rates, you can also oops, stop updating via GPS by accident. I've written a lot of code for years. Another time.
I don't know if the camera is reading all three files or just one of them to get the date. I suspect the 3gf file is the one. I'll play more later. Perhaps the camera uses the last video date until the GPS kicks in. My GPS displays proper mph but won't update the date. Maybe it's like a weak car battery that will play your radio bit not start the car. But that's too Analog.
You only need to rename the newest 3 files to set the proper date and time.
It's not the solution to the problem.
So it let the camera create a couple of short videos. Took the sd card back to the PC. Each video has 3 files associated with it. They all have the same name with different file extensions. They are :'date'.mp4, 'date'.gps and 'date'.3gf.
I renamed all three to the current date and time, keeping the file extensions intact. I booted my camera. It now displays the date I put in.
Here is the bad news fellow Clockers. After you power down for the night, and then power up in the morning, is the time and date correct for today's new videos, or did the camera pick up where it left off last night by reading the card?
It's too late to go into GPS battery's vs software dissertation. Buh! We Clockers had working, updating, cameras before the update. There are also log files that reference the software build installed. And it doesn't say 1.008. How many different builds of Win7 are there. Perhaps there are some tweaks besides the language in 1.008. Just speculation. If you can program for different bit rates, you can also oops, stop updating via GPS by accident. I've written a lot of code for years. Another time.
I don't know if the camera is reading all three files or just one of them to get the date. I suspect the 3gf file is the one. I'll play more later. Perhaps the camera uses the last video date until the GPS kicks in. My GPS displays proper mph but won't update the date. Maybe it's like a weak car battery that will play your radio bit not start the car. But that's too Analog.
You only need to rename the newest 3 files to set the proper date and time.
It's not the solution to the problem.