Rob wrote: > Unruh <[email protected]> wrote: >> "Richard B. Gilbert" <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Harlan Stenn wrote: >>>> The time on my cellphone is routinely more than 3 seconds off of GPS time. >>> Is your cell phone "CDMA"? Other technologies, there are several, may >>> not require the precise timing that CDMA does! >> It will be hard for them to get CDMA in London, or Paris, or in fact >> anywhere in the world except >> N America. > > It has always amazed me that in an all-digital system like GSM there is > no standard way to communicate wallclock time from the network to the > handhelds. Even a once-per-hour time transmission that would sync the > freerunning clock in the phone would be fine for most users.
I tend to rely on my wrist watch for time rather than my cell phone. Also, I think most people buy cell phones to use as phones and would never miss having the correct time on the phone. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
