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Do we know if it's possible to volunteer services to Groundspeak? Is there a closed beta group? I'd be surprised if there aren't any UX specialists / coders / general functionality consultants in the community.

Fair enough. One idea would be to store everything as UTC and then translate to local time on-the-fly, like Garmin Basecamp* seems to. Guess they hard-coded PST somewhere and have been regretting it ever since. * Ever tried exporting a track log that crosses multiple timezones for tagging photos in Lightroom? Oh, the pain!

Some excellent options there @hzoi - many thanks for taking the time to list them for me! Gonna be a case of trial-and-error to see which I end up with. Those of us who have been around since the early days of the internet will recognise the roots of Geocaching in the way some of these features are designed, I'm sure. Not to mention trying to use the site via WiFi on a cruise boat. But I digress ...

Well, I guess the 'notify me of replies' option doesn't email me then. Sorry about my late response, and thanks for all the suggestions! In my naivety I had assumed that the date I log a DNF would be a queryable datapoint just like the last found date, but I guess not. I'm still fairly new to this, and the instructions featuring bookmark lists etc sound quite daunting. Well, not daunting, but the kind of process that I know will fall clean out of my head if I don't do it regularly enough, and being new here I'm not yet sure how likely that is. GSAK might also be useful if I had more mental bandwidth available ... and wasn't using a Mac. Then again, that UI. [shudder]

I don't understand which part is supposed to be unreliable - my iPhone 6S or the 9+ GPS satellites I'm constantly connected to. Travelling 6 miles is hardly crossing timezones. Surely those satellites would know where I am and what the time is? I too work for a US company (we even have an office in Seattle) and while I sometimes find it frustrating that all our logs use PST we can just about manage to get the date right.

I'm curious, are there any known defects with regards to dates? I recently collected a TB from a cache, but the date / timestamp of this action was shown as one day before the TB was placed in the cache. Today I moved another TB from cache to cache, and that's showing two different dates too, despite there being only around 30 "real" minutes between actions. Thoughts?

Hey Gang, first post here, be gentle. I'm wondering if it's possible to create a pocket query to show me all those geocaches that I have marked as DNF but that have been found subsequently / recently. Looking back at my list of DNFs, I reckon they can be easily divided into two camps; those that are lost to the mists of time, and those that are still around (and just managed to elude me). I can set 'I have not found' and 'found in last 7 days' but I really want to intersect that with 'marked by me as DNF' - only I can't. Any ideas?

I do hope not, just upgraded to the 64s from a Vista HCX. Looking at the timelines it does feel like the 66 is just around the corner, but Garmin marches to the beat of its own drum, so I put off procrastinating and grabbed one from Millets; £275 with full UK OS 1:50. Which does not cover the Isle of Man as advertised. Grrrr...

Most of the messages in this thread relate to charging the GPSMap 64 while it's powered off, and the general consensus appears to be that regardless of battery type, rechargeable batteries take longer than expected to reach full capacity, though they do eventually get there and the charging symbol changes to reflect that. My question: Does the same apply to charging the batteries while actively using the unit? I see the same animated symbol when I briefly press the power button, but I have yet to see it indicating what I'd call a fully charged state. Unplugging the GPS after some time shows the batteries to be full, and indeed I get 3 or 4 hours use before the first bar disappears, but on reconnecting it just seems to charge forever. My background: I purchased the GPSMap 64 to use on a multi-day trip, where I will be relying on an Anker PowerCore+ 26,800 USB battery pack to keep me going. The power pack will stay permanently connected to the GPSMap 64, which is fitted with a pair of Duracell Ultra 2500 rechargeable cells. Assuming a conservative 90% charging efficiency I reckon this will be good for at least 9 cycles, and so look forward to 120 hours of continued use as a minimum. Just would be good to not have to keep unplugging it whenever I think it's full.