Video CatCam User Manual - Page 9 of 12
8. Change Time Stamp
The videos are overlaid with a time stamp. This time can be adjusted.
Procedure:
1. Open notepad or any other text only editor
2. write:
[date]
2011/04/21
20:35:00
this is setting the date to April 21, 2011 and the time to 8pm 35 minutes. Make sure that
each line, also the last line, is finished by pressing the ENTER key. File size must be 30
Bytes.
3. save as text file with the name tag.txt (lower case).
4. copy this file in the cameras root directory.
5. disconnect camera
6. switch camera ON, the camera will read the file, set the date and erase the file.
Older cameras require a different format of the file:
Write:
[date] 2009/12/29 16:58:00 this is setting the date to Dec. 29, 2009 and the
time to 4pm 58 minutes. Make sure that the last character after the time is a space !