Setting or Changing the Date and Time (PowerShot G3 X)

This section describes how to make the date and time settings on the camera.

Information you specify this way is recorded in image properties when you shoot, and it is used when you manage images by shooting date or print images showing the date.

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Initial Date and Time Settings

When you turn on the camera for the first time after purchase, the [Date/time] settings screen appears. Please be sure to set the current date and time correctly.
If the [Date/time] settings screen is not displayed, please refer to Changing the Date and Time.

1. Press the power button to turn the camera on.

2. Press the [ ], [ ] buttons to choose an option.

Press the [ ], [ ] buttons to specify the date and time.

Set the year, month, date, and time.

Change the year, month, and date.

Set the daylight saving time (one hour is added to the current time).

When finished, press the [ ] button.

3. Press the [ ], [ ] buttons to choose your home time zone.

Press the [ ] button when finished.

Changing the Date and Time

1. Press the power button to turn the camera on.

2. Press the [MENU] button.

3. Move the zoom lever to choose the [ ] tab.

Press the [ ], [ ] buttons to choose [ ].

Press the ], [ ] buttons to choose [Date/Time], and then press the [ ] button.

4. Press the [ ], [ ] buttons to choose an option.

Press the [ ], [ ] buttons to specify the date and time.

Set the year, month, date, and time.

Change the year, month, and date.

Set the daylight saving time (one hour is added to the current time).

When finished, press the [ ] button.

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