+Fizzle1979 Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 I read the Wiki page for the Garmin Oregon 300 and saw that it has no option for time stamping field notes with the time you find or didn't find the geocache. But in actually viewing the geocache_visits.txt file I see that it does display a time setting in the text. My thought was I would edit my field note text to show the time stamp, then upload to the geocaching website. Well today at 3:40pm Central time I made a DNF field note. Came home and was going to edit the field note for that visit. It's showing the time as 20:40 in the geocache_visits.txt file and which would be 8:40. Why is it not showing the correct time as 15:40? Yes I have my Setup > Time as Central. When I googled this problem I could only find what a great "time" I will have my with Garmin. Quote Link to comment
+fegan Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 The geocache_visits.txt file is written with ZULU time. Quote Link to comment
+Fizzle1979 Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 The geocache_visits.txt file is written with ZULU time. Thanks. So that means I would take the geocache_visits.txt time and subject five hours...and that would give me 15:40, which is 3:40 PM. Quote Link to comment
+Fizzle1979 Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 Also on the garmin website for support. There's not even an option for Oregon 300. Strange? Quote Link to comment
+Maingray Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 IF you use GSAK, there's a very handy macro to take your field note file, automagically take certain values from it, such as time of day, and add that to a template log. You can add your own text to the log and voila... up to gc.com it goes. Quote Link to comment
+Fizzle1979 Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 IF you use GSAK, there's a very handy macro to take your field note file, automagically take certain values from it, such as time of day, and add that to a template log. You can add your own text to the log and voila... up to gc.com it goes. I'm a Mac user. Quote Link to comment
+g-o-cashers Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 I read the Wiki page for the Garmin Oregon 300 and saw that it has no option for time stamping field notes with the time you find or didn't find the geocache. But in actually viewing the geocache_visits.txt file I see that it does display a time setting in the text. Hmmm. http://garminoregon.wikispaces.com/Geocaching#toc15 Quote Link to comment
+Fizzle1979 Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 I read the Wiki page for the Garmin Oregon 300 and saw that it has no option for time stamping field notes with the time you find or didn't find the geocache. But in actually viewing the geocache_visits.txt file I see that it does display a time setting in the text. Hmmm. http://garminoregon.wikispaces.com/Geocaching#toc15 GC13.) Does the Garmin Oregon timestamp my finds? Can I get the timestamp to show up in my logs when I use fieldnotes? Yes, the file that is uploaded from the Oregon called geocache_visits.txt has a complete date and timestamp for when you marked the cache. There is a Colorado FieldNotes Import GSAK macro which converts the timestamp data so that the timestamp will show up in your GSAK logs. There currently isn't a way to automatically get the timestamp into your log at geocaching.com. If the above is what you are referring to, yes the Oregon 300 time stamps the information, but does not contain that information in the field note itself that is uploaded to the GC website. It's a two part question, they are saying "yes" to the first part. The second part is misleading. If someone can help me figure out how to automatically have the time stamp show on the field notes, I'm open for suggestions. I'm on Mac OS X. Quote Link to comment
+fegan Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 I'm not familiar with any Mac software for geocaching, so my only suggestion would be... I don't know how many geocaches you typically find...if it's just a few, you could edit the geocache_visits.txt file before you upload it to geocaching.com. Copy/Paste the time into the comment (the last field, enclosed with quotes) in a text editor. e.g. GC1YFNZ,2009-10-01T13:05Z,Found it,"2009-10-01T13:05Z" Quote Link to comment
+Fizzle1979 Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 I'm not familiar with any Mac software for geocaching, so my only suggestion would be... I don't know how many geocaches you typically find...if it's just a few, you could edit the geocache_visits.txt file before you upload it to geocaching.com. Copy/Paste the time into the comment (the last field, enclosed with quotes) in a text editor. e.g. GC1YFNZ,2009-10-01T13:05Z,Found it,"2009-10-01T13:05Z" That was my goal, but it's in Zulo time, so i have to subject five hours from the time. Quote Link to comment
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