[BaseCamp] Verify My Sanity (BC Feature Confirmation...)

[Maura]

Basecamp is a route planning program. It does not have the same function as
the GPS device.
For route planning, the hours of travel is important. Is this route 18
hours or riding or 19? Makes a difference. Basecamp is also tied in your
computer to your computer clock.IF it is set to your home time zone , then
your basecamp arrival time will be off if you are in another time zone.

Basecamp does not distort the travel time by switching time zones. This is
a good thing.

In my zumo, the time zone switches from the initial input. So if you are
going on a one hour trip over a time zone, it can show it taking like 2
minutes to go 70 miles. Not good for time/fatigue management.
In my Montana, the time zone switch does not occur until you cross over
into the time zone itself. So the two units are often out of sync by an
hour. Older 376c and 478s do not make time zone adjustments.

You need to understand how your particular unit handles time zones. It is
easy to make a critical error that can leave you an hour late if you rely
on GPS time zone switch .

Hope this helps

Maura

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:54 PM Chris Rasmussen <crasmussen at carolina.rr.com>
wrote:

> This is why I keep a separate list of arrival/departure times and route
> point to point  Really only important during rallying.  If your just going
> somewhere your either gonna be early or late,  Doesn't really matter so
> long as you get there.  If you have a deadline, the ETA will show you if
> you have time to stop.  ETA says 10:00am and you don't need to be there
> until 11:00 you have some time to kill.  If it says ETA 11:00 and you are
> supposed to be there at 10:00 you best not dilly dally and once in motion,
> twist the wrist.
>
> For Rallies, a SECOND GPS set to the Checkpoint lets you know if your
> early or late.
>
> M2C, YMMV.
>
> Ride Smart(ly)
> Chris
> crasmussen at carolina.rr.com
> IBA 60711
> I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The
> great affair is to move.
>
>                                      Robert Louis Stevenson
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Rasmussen
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> Subject: Re: [BaseCamp] Verify My Sanity (BC Feature Confirmation...)
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> Ken .. " If your 10 minute planned stop turns into an 8 minute stop, you
> just happen to be 2 minutes ahead at this stage of the trip..." ... hehheh
> yes and no. At that point I might well be 2 minutes ahead of whatever
> overall ETA Basecamp had told me when it was accounting for layovers, but
> now I'd be 8 minutes BEHIND what my particular GPS thinks my ETA should be.
> And since my GPS ETA is the one I see for, say,1,000 miles on the
> motorcycle during an Iron Butt Saddle Sore, with each and every stop I get
> further and further "behind" schedule. Then have to mentally kick myself
> and remind myself that it will all work out fine because I accounted for
> all that during planning in Basecamp. :P
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