Setting time and date

[JosParticipant]

I’ve noticed that the files coming off my SQ mixers are all set with timestamps in 1970 — I’m assuming when the mixer boots it starts somewhere around there and just rolls time/date forward the longer it’s on. Is there any way to *set* the time and date on the mixer, so that files are written with the correct date & time? (It does make it a bit awkward to figure out which show files are which based on timestamp. 🙂 )

[GeoffParticipant]

I’m not sure about your SQ, but mine dates every file as Jan. 1, 2017. So it doesn’t even have a running clock that just happens to always start at the same place.

Might as well get used to it. It’s one of the [annoying but minor] limitations of the SQ’s operating system.

The exception to this is show or scene files that I have created or edited on a PC. They will have the correct date, assuming my computer’s clock has been set accurately.

Geoff

[Søren SteinmetzParticipant]

It is one of the, for some minor for others major, shortcommings of the SQ hardware platform, there is no RTC (real time clock) on the board.
It would need a different board inside the console to add that, as it is not something simply done in firmware.

[JosParticipant]

That’s a shame, especially since there are elegant ways of fixing it with minimal OS changes by pulling the time/date off of connected devices, or supplying it with DHCP info on the network. Not a show-stopper, but something I’ll have to remember to sort out in a post-recording workflow.

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