The clock on my Bell Mobility (CDMA) phone is clicking over about 2 seconds 
FAST.

Quoting Brian Garrett <[email protected]>:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> To: "Leap Second Discussion List" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 1:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] DCF77, HBG, MSF, two out of three
> 
> 
> >> From: Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> DCF77 got right, as always.
> >>
> >> HBG also got it right this time.
> >>
> >> MSF still fumbles the DUT1 bits.
> >>
> >> http://phk.freebsd.dk/Leap/20081231/
> >
> > Very nice.  Alas, my receiver isn't close enough to the computer and I 
> > didn't think to record the signal.
> >
> > WWV got it right, as far as I could tell.  I'm not sure if the DUT1 bits 
> > were correct in the first minute or not.
> >
> Sprint's cellular network has still NOT got it right,after four days.  My 
> cell phone, whose time display used to change right on the tick of the UTC 
> second, is now one second slow.  Sprint is a CDMA network, which as far as I 
> know runs on GPS time, so it would appear that some code indicating the 
> number of seconds difference between UTC and GPS ws not updated.
> 
> GSM networks like T-Mobile and AT&T are just fine with wall-clock time so 
> they can happily be off by two minutes and no one but us anal-retentives 
> will know or care :)  Verizon is CDMA so they should have updated, unless 
> they goofed like Sprint.
> 
> 
> Brian Garrett 
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