Cell Phone Time
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I've always relied on my cell phone for keeping time, since wearing a watch is extremely hazardous when working around high voltage, and the phones are supposed to be synchronized to the GPS system. Or so I thought. Last night I happened to be in the truck with three different phones, and just took a look at their time displays. What a difference! My lady's TracPhone displayed 6:20PM, my Motorola Nextel phone read 6:26 PM, and my Samsung Epic from Sprint displayed 6:33 PM! Have they abandoned the GPS standard? All 3 were in a good signal area with full signal indicated, so they couldn't have been affected by a lack of service. Any thoughts?
Will Rogers never met me.
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I've always relied on my cell phone for keeping time, since wearing a watch is extremely hazardous when working around high voltage, and the phones are supposed to be synchronized to the GPS system. Or so I thought. Last night I happened to be in the truck with three different phones, and just took a look at their time displays. What a difference! My lady's TracPhone displayed 6:20PM, my Motorola Nextel phone read 6:26 PM, and my Samsung Epic from Sprint displayed 6:33 PM! Have they abandoned the GPS standard? All 3 were in a good signal area with full signal indicated, so they couldn't have been affected by a lack of service. Any thoughts?
Will Rogers never met me.
Some (many?) phones only sync up when you power-cycle them.
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I've always relied on my cell phone for keeping time, since wearing a watch is extremely hazardous when working around high voltage, and the phones are supposed to be synchronized to the GPS system. Or so I thought. Last night I happened to be in the truck with three different phones, and just took a look at their time displays. What a difference! My lady's TracPhone displayed 6:20PM, my Motorola Nextel phone read 6:26 PM, and my Samsung Epic from Sprint displayed 6:33 PM! Have they abandoned the GPS standard? All 3 were in a good signal area with full signal indicated, so they couldn't have been affected by a lack of service. Any thoughts?
Will Rogers never met me.
Unless configured otherwise, phones take the time from the cell phone network, *not* from GPS. Different network operators might have different times. I fine mine is 15 seconds behind the correct time.
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Unless configured otherwise, phones take the time from the cell phone network, *not* from GPS. Different network operators might have different times. I fine mine is 15 seconds behind the correct time.
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe, but not a personality. [Charlie Brooker] ScrewTurn Wiki, Software Localization Tools & Services and My Blog
Dario Solera wrote:
I fine mine is 15 seconds behind the correct time.
well, time is relative.
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I've always relied on my cell phone for keeping time, since wearing a watch is extremely hazardous when working around high voltage, and the phones are supposed to be synchronized to the GPS system. Or so I thought. Last night I happened to be in the truck with three different phones, and just took a look at their time displays. What a difference! My lady's TracPhone displayed 6:20PM, my Motorola Nextel phone read 6:26 PM, and my Samsung Epic from Sprint displayed 6:33 PM! Have they abandoned the GPS standard? All 3 were in a good signal area with full signal indicated, so they couldn't have been affected by a lack of service. Any thoughts?
Will Rogers never met me.
I have the same issue but with servers. If I log into one network the sever time is 15 mins different then my workstation and is completely different then another server.
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I've always relied on my cell phone for keeping time, since wearing a watch is extremely hazardous when working around high voltage, and the phones are supposed to be synchronized to the GPS system. Or so I thought. Last night I happened to be in the truck with three different phones, and just took a look at their time displays. What a difference! My lady's TracPhone displayed 6:20PM, my Motorola Nextel phone read 6:26 PM, and my Samsung Epic from Sprint displayed 6:33 PM! Have they abandoned the GPS standard? All 3 were in a good signal area with full signal indicated, so they couldn't have been affected by a lack of service. Any thoughts?
Will Rogers never met me.
I have found my phone to be on the European Summer Time a couple times...and I live in Utah, USA! I have had to take it off of automatic time syncing to get it to tell me what time it is here! EVO 4G.
If you know what I mean...and I think you do...
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I have the same issue but with servers. If I log into one network the sever time is 15 mins different then my workstation and is completely different then another server.
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
That's an easy fix, if you have access to the command line. ;P
Will Rogers never met me.
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I've always relied on my cell phone for keeping time, since wearing a watch is extremely hazardous when working around high voltage, and the phones are supposed to be synchronized to the GPS system. Or so I thought. Last night I happened to be in the truck with three different phones, and just took a look at their time displays. What a difference! My lady's TracPhone displayed 6:20PM, my Motorola Nextel phone read 6:26 PM, and my Samsung Epic from Sprint displayed 6:33 PM! Have they abandoned the GPS standard? All 3 were in a good signal area with full signal indicated, so they couldn't have been affected by a lack of service. Any thoughts?
Will Rogers never met me.
Depending on the age of the phones, they may not be able to synch. My last phone was like that. The phone itself had the option on one of the menus, but my network provider had yet to implement the synch feature. Fortunately the clock was never more than a handful of seconds off.
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I've always relied on my cell phone for keeping time, since wearing a watch is extremely hazardous when working around high voltage, and the phones are supposed to be synchronized to the GPS system. Or so I thought. Last night I happened to be in the truck with three different phones, and just took a look at their time displays. What a difference! My lady's TracPhone displayed 6:20PM, my Motorola Nextel phone read 6:26 PM, and my Samsung Epic from Sprint displayed 6:33 PM! Have they abandoned the GPS standard? All 3 were in a good signal area with full signal indicated, so they couldn't have been affected by a lack of service. Any thoughts?
Will Rogers never met me.
I was on a bus to Augusta, ME from Portland, ME and my cell phone insisted I was in Boston, Mass. I don't know what the above has to do with your story, just thought that I would share.
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I've always relied on my cell phone for keeping time, since wearing a watch is extremely hazardous when working around high voltage, and the phones are supposed to be synchronized to the GPS system. Or so I thought. Last night I happened to be in the truck with three different phones, and just took a look at their time displays. What a difference! My lady's TracPhone displayed 6:20PM, my Motorola Nextel phone read 6:26 PM, and my Samsung Epic from Sprint displayed 6:33 PM! Have they abandoned the GPS standard? All 3 were in a good signal area with full signal indicated, so they couldn't have been affected by a lack of service. Any thoughts?
Will Rogers never met me.
Cell towers need accurate time for the network to work. Most have at least one GPS receiver in the tower. [^] In one of our products we use time servers that use CDMA signals instead of GPS and they are accurate to < 10 us. The lack of accuracy is probably more in the implementation of the cell phone clock application itself.
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Cell towers need accurate time for the network to work. Most have at least one GPS receiver in the tower. [^] In one of our products we use time servers that use CDMA signals instead of GPS and they are accurate to < 10 us. The lack of accuracy is probably more in the implementation of the cell phone clock application itself.
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Steve Mayfield wrote:
The lack of accuracy is probably more in the implementation of the cell phone clock application itself.
Probably, but 13 minutes worth? :wtf: I can do better than that with a relaxation oscillator!
Will Rogers never met me.
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I've always relied on my cell phone for keeping time, since wearing a watch is extremely hazardous when working around high voltage, and the phones are supposed to be synchronized to the GPS system. Or so I thought. Last night I happened to be in the truck with three different phones, and just took a look at their time displays. What a difference! My lady's TracPhone displayed 6:20PM, my Motorola Nextel phone read 6:26 PM, and my Samsung Epic from Sprint displayed 6:33 PM! Have they abandoned the GPS standard? All 3 were in a good signal area with full signal indicated, so they couldn't have been affected by a lack of service. Any thoughts?
Will Rogers never met me.
Down under, it depends on both network and handset. Telstra does support phones setting their time from the network (usually a config option in mid- to up-market phones), but Vodafone doesn't (AFAIK). No idea about Optus and other carriers. My two J2ME-capable phones (Motorola V3XX, Nokia N95) both sync with Telstra because I told them to, but my wife's low-spec Nokia doesn't because it can't. The only problem I have with it is daylight saving. The bits of Oz that do daylight saving changed the cutover dates since the phones' daylight savings tables were coded. (Actually, I'm not sure about the Nokia - the Motorola definitely wants to adjust the time on the wrong day, then gets it right after a reboot.) Moral: check phone setup - you might not be requesting network time. Cheers, Peter
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