Your GPS would most likely provide false information if your time zone is incorrect. If your dash cam also has a built-in GPS feature that helps you in locating and monitoring the route of your vehicle, whether for personal use or fleet management, this must also be well considered. For example, having multiple dash cams installed in different vehicles that are all synchronized with the same time zone makes it easier to evaluate and piece together the events precisely. Moreover, setting the timezone on your dash cam is critical for consistency and comparison of footage from different sources. This ensures that timestamps match the local time, making it easier to correlate occurrences with other sources of information, such as witness statements or traffic logs.
When providing video evidence, the time assists in determining the sequence of events that occurred during an incident, providing a precise time frame for analyzing footage. Setting this on your dash cam has a very important role – providing strong evidence. Your dash cam maintains accurate current time, calibrated to minute fractions of a second, using technologies such as the Network Time Protocol. A timestamp is the current time of an event recorded by your dash cam. While recording footage, your dash cam video may include a timestamp. Setting the timezone is a standard setting in every dash cam, as your dash cam is a device that tells and uses time for it to serve its purpose. We recommend you to backup any important videos that are in the microSD card before changing the timezone as well. Changing the timezone of your camera will erase all footage. Moreover, when you change the time zone and save the setting, the next time you insert the microSD card into the dash cam, it will format the microSD card and restart automatically. Daylight Saving Time in the USA and Canada starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November – please do take note of that! Remember, we want your dash cam footage to be as consistent as possible especially in terms of timestamps, so make sure to adjust your timezone once DST is implemented. If the time zone is right but the time is still off by an hour, you have an option to enable or disable daylight saving time. The United States and Canada both observe Daylight Saving Time (DST), in which clocks are moved forward or backward by one hour to optimize daylight during specified times of the year.įor your dash cams, the Daylight Savings Time setting must be manually enabled and disabled.