Patent ID: 8244098

Claim:
A recording apparatus for writing a video object onto a recording medium on which basic time zone information specifying a basic time zone is written, the recording apparatus comprising: a timer operable to measure a time based on a predetermined time zone; a converting unit operable to, if the basic time zone does not match the predetermined time zone, convert the time measured by the timer into a time based on the basic time zone; a writing unit operable to, if the basic time zone does not match the predetermined time zone, write management information for the video object onto the recording medium, the management information containing a flag indicating that the basic time zone and the predetermined time zone do not match, recording time information showing the conversion-result time, and local time zone information specifying the predetermined time zone as a local time zone; and a control unit operable to divide, as editing, the video object written onto the recording medium into a former video object and a latter video object, wherein the writing unit is operable to write management information for the latter video object onto the recording medium, the management information for the latter video object includes a value of the flag and the local time zone information that are the same as values of the flag and the local time zone information in the management information for the video object before the division, and the management information for the latter video object includes a value of the recording time information obtained by modifying a value of the recording time information for the former video object, based on a playback time length of the former video object.