Richard B. Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: >> How dumb... something like time-of-day should be broadcast just like >> cell broadcast and everyone would be able to receive it without any >> requesting. > > Time is broadcast! WWV, WWVB, CHU, JJY, etc. Most radio and TV > stations broadcast the time; "At the tone the correct time will be. . . > ." Many radio and TV stations get the time directly from WWV and > rebroadcast the tone from WWV. > > CMDA base stations also broadcast the time. I'm not sufficiently > familiar with the other technologies to be able to state that they do, > or do not, supply correct time to the phones they serve.
Of course I mean "broadcast on the GSM network". That is where a GSM phone is listening. It cannot receive WWV. It should be trivial to send a datagram with current time at some interval on such a digital phone network, but apparently this was not foreseen in the standard. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
