IP Camera, time stamp oddity

The camera is able to FTP upload its photos, when triggered, to a folder on one of my websites and has a built in clock, which it is able to sync with a time server. Power it down and it looses its time/date. Part of its settings, is the time zone - which I have set for GMT London. There is no tick box for BST offset, but it does show the correct BST time in its settings page. The uploads are triggered by any motion it sees in its picture and the upload goes straight from the camera, via my router, to the server.

Once uploaded, I can then download the photos to my PC and view them except the files time stamp is exactly one hour out, 09:02am actual is marked as 08.02am.

Now if I set it not synchronise with a timeserver, its clock starts running with a date in 1970 and from 00:00 time. If I do that, the files are still correctly dated and the time is still one hour slow on all of the files it uploads via FTP. So its built in clock seems to serve no purpose, but where is the time and date coming from and why is it always an hour out, when compared to BST?

Reply to
Harry Bloomfield
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From the timestamp when your PC writes the files, at a guess.

Reply to
Chris Bartram

No PC is involved in writing the files. Camera -> router -> to the server via FTP.

I have just checked my ruter and it was set sync its time, but to always use GMT. I have changed that to GMT/BST, rebooted, but the files are still getting stamped with GMT.

Reply to
Harry Bloomfield

Substitute "the ftp server" for "your pc". Sorry, I assumed the FTP connection was to your PC.

Reply to
Chris Bartram

That makes sense, but nothing much I can do about it, its my ISP's server. Thanks!

Reply to
Harry Bloomfield

To eliminate the camera doing silly things what happens to the date/time of a file uploaded from your PC to the same server?

Reply to
Dave Liquorice

Good point...

I have just tried uploading a file from my system, to the server. On my system the date /time was from June. The date /time of the file once on the server, changed to todays date and current time -1 or GMT.

So its the server applying its date /time to the files ;-)

Reply to
Harry Bloomfield

remember that most proper kit will stamp with GMT but display as local time (BST). Or sometimes not.

you need to be aware of this.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

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