{"id":2287,"date":"2013-01-31T23:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-10T11:15:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T18:15:28","slug":"2287","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/2287","title":{"rendered":"How do I set the time, date, and timezone on the original LabQuest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"notice\" style=\"border: 1px solid red; padding: 1em; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em;\">\n<h3>This information pertains to the original LabQuest.<\/h3>\n<p>If you have LabQuest 2 or LabQuest 3, see <a href=\"\/til\/2914\/\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When the LabQuest battery is drained, the clock can lose track of the current time. The time will also be wrong after applying a LabQuest update and the LabQuest will be set to Pacific Time when you first get the units from us in Portland, OR.<\/p>\n<p>The easiest way to set the time, date, and timezone is to follow these steps:<br \/>\n1) Run Logger <i>Pro<\/i> or Logger Lite on your computer and verify that the system clock displays the correct date, time and time zone.<br \/>\n2) Connect the mini-USB cable to the LabQuest unit and the computer.<br \/>\n3) The computer will automatically set the time, date and time zone on the unit.<\/p>\n<p>You can set the time and date in LabQuest manually by tapping on the home icon on the LabQuest screen, then selecting Control Panel, Time &amp; Date. You can also see, but not set, the timezone from here; if you never use LabQuest with a computer the timezone is not important, the timezone is only important if you are collecting time of day measurements and importing it into Logger <em>Pro<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This information pertains to the original LabQuest. If you have LabQuest 2 or LabQuest 3, see this article. When the LabQuest battery is drained, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3751,3752,2462,3092],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-clock","tag-date","tag-labq","tag-time"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}