Want to force SleepyHead to use CPAP clock time

Sleepyhead has it's own timezone setting, which I have set to my home time zone. It even adjusts for daylight saving time.

However, I travel across multiple time zones. Even though I always set the correct local time on my CPAP, Sleepyhead still wants to use my home time zone. The data while I'm away are all distorted and days split in a very strange way.

I want to have SleepyHead use the CPAP internal clock time as it is set at the time of recording. Does anybody know if that can be done?

I don't think it can be done.
Even Encore Pro uses a time zone setting for wherever the "office" is.

. wrote: Even though I always set the correct local time on my CPAP,

You can't change the time on a respironics CPAP, that's set at the factory, and requires factory diagnostic tools to change it.

All you're changing is the time ZONE offset, which affects the time displayed. The actual time in the machine is unaffected.

This raises a question for me. My PR560 was used for one night in the US before it shipped to me. It now shows the correct Australian time and as QLD doesn't have DST this is great. The question I've pondered is what got it to change to Australian time? Did they preset that in the store in the US or does the machine have some way of knowing where it is?

Holden4th wrote:This raises a question for me. My PR560 was used for one night in the US before it shipped to me. It now shows the correct Australian time and as QLD doesn't have DST this is great. The question I've pondered is what got it to change to Australian time? Did they preset that in the store in the US or does the machine have some way of knowing where it is?

Respironics sets all their machine internal clocks to GMT time. Software (time zone adjustments) and maybe your computer clock makes the end result end up being the correct time for where you are at.

Holden4th wrote:This raises a question for me. My PR560 was used for one night in the US before it shipped to me. It now shows the correct Australian time and as QLD doesn't have DST this is great. The question I've pondered is what got it to change to Australian time? Did they preset that in the store in the US or does the machine have some way of knowing where it is?

Did you buy this through a "regular" supplier or through something like Ebay? If it's the latter, the seller may have done it before shipping. If it was for a regular supplier, the supplier may have done it before it came you you or remotely after the fact.

Holden4th bought his machine from secondwindcpap.com.
They don't have the equipment needed to reset the internal machine clock and why would they even bother anyway.
It's set at the factory and needs special equipment and special software to reset the clock.
Patients and DMEs don't have access to the internal clock. I don't even know if acbio.com could change the clock.

Respironics sets ALL machines to an internal clock set to GMT at the factory. They have always done that since the beginning of time.
The fact that the machine goes halfway across the world and ends up with the software reports showing the correct time is because of the software making the correction with the time zone adjustment.

Pugsy wrote:Holden4th bought his machine from secondwindcpap.com.
They don't have the equipment needed to reset the internal machine clock and why would they even bother anyway.
It's set at the factory and needs special equipment and special software to reset the clock.
Patients and DMEs don't have access to the internal clock. I don't even know if acbio.com could change the clock.

They could, Sludge posted a pic of the data adapter needed, and mentioned the software, apparently, he had it.

palerider wrote: They could, Sludge posted a pic of the data adapter needed, and mentioned the software, apparently, he had it.

Yeah, I suppose they could but why go to all the trouble? Den has what is needed to do it with the his Legacy machines but that's only needed if the battery totally craps out and has to be replaced too. How he got a hold of the software and cable I never knew but it won't work with anything but his Legacy machine from what I understand.

I just don't see the need to go to the expense or trouble. They don't roll back the hours either.
I just don't see a battery totally dying on a 0 hour or low hour PR S1 60 series machine.
And even if they did do it...they would probably just reset to GMT time anyway.
It's work and expense that is simply not needed so why buy the stuff and do it when it isn't needed? At least that's how I would look at it if I owned that business or a similar business. I wouldn't be sitting there thinking "oh, this machine is going to some place in Australia and I need to figure out the time zone they would be in and fix it for them. They would be thinking like me...let the software time zone setting sort it out.

D.H. wrote:

Holden4th wrote:This raises a question for me. My PR560 was used for one night in the US before it shipped to me. It now shows the correct Australian time and as QLD doesn't have DST this is great. The question I've pondered is what got it to change to Australian time? Did they preset that in the store in the US or does the machine have some way of knowing where it is?

Did you buy this through a "regular" supplier or through something like Ebay? If it's the latter, the seller may have done it before shipping. If it was for a regular supplier, the supplier may have done it before it came you you or remotely after the fact.

More Crap posting D.H.? Jim

Pugsy wrote:

palerider wrote: They could, Sludge posted a pic of the data adapter needed, and mentioned the software, apparently, he had it.

Yeah, I suppose they could but why go to all the trouble? Den has what is needed to do it with the his Legacy machines but that's only needed if the battery totally craps out and has to be replaced too. How he got a hold of the software and cable I never knew but it won't work with anything but his Legacy machine from what I understand.

I just don't see the need to go to the expense or trouble. They don't roll back the hours either.
I just don't see a battery totally dying on a 0 hour or low hour PR S1 60 series machine.
And even if they did do it...they would probably just reset to GMT time anyway.
It's work and expense that is simply not needed so why buy the stuff and do it when it isn't needed? At least that's how I would look at it if I owned that business or a similar business. I wouldn't be sitting there thinking "oh, this machine is going to some place in Australia and I need to figure out the time zone they would be in and fix it for them. They would be thinking like me...let the software time zone setting sort it out.

I think that it's just a mouseclick when you've already got the machine hooked up for performance diagnostics and calibration. I might be mistaken about that though.

I agree, they're not going to change the time to some other timezone, they might just reset it to GMT, to correct any drift that's happened over time.

Pugsy wrote:

Holden4th wrote:This raises a question for me. My PR560 was used for one night in the US before it shipped to me. It now shows the correct Australian time and as QLD doesn't have DST this is great. The question I've pondered is what got it to change to Australian time? Did they preset that in the store in the US or does the machine have some way of knowing where it is?

Respironics sets all their machine internal clocks to GMT time. Software (time zone adjustments) and maybe your computer clock makes the end result end up being the correct time for where you are at.

...of course, I should have thought of that.

Not trying to be a smart-a**, but if having sleepyhead show the machine clock time, get a Resmed machine and adjust the internal clock to what ever time zone you are in when you travel.