[time-nuts] "Selective availability" af accurate time for Apple users?

2015-10-20 Thread Brian Garrett
in favor of Apple Watch? Brian Garrett ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.

Re: [time-nuts] How are iPhones' clocks set under LTE?

2014-08-04 Thread Brian Garrett
I've heard that people who live near time zone boundaries (very near, like within a mile or two) often have to switch automatic setting off, because the time might be an hour off depending on which tower their phone connects to. the annual switches to and from daylight saving time can cause

Re: [time-nuts] How are iPhones' clocks set under LTE?

2014-08-04 Thread Brian Garrett
Emerald Time is a very nifty little app, and yes, I've used it a number of times to check my phone's displayed time. It's often off by more than two seconds but never more than three, so far. There are several other apps that can check the time with NTP, and display it in different formats,

[time-nuts] How are iPhones' clocks set under LTE?

2014-08-03 Thread Brian Garrett
Hi all, First “time”r here. This may not rank up there with your degree of time-nuttery, but I haven’t been able to get an answer elsewhere. Recently I was discussing the issue of how the different cellular providers set their time, and I told him that I’d read that CDMA phones and towers

Re: [time-nuts] clock and cannon at noon story

2014-02-04 Thread Brian Garrett
Not if he added leap seconds :) Brian -Original Message- From: Michael Blazer Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 4:22 PM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] clock and cannon at noon story Wouldn't the watchmaker notice that his clock is always a few seconds fast? If the

Re: [time-nuts] Looking for Dual-Time Atomic Clock

2014-01-23 Thread Brian Garrett
Well, of course you can. You can do that with any clock. Claiming that it can be synced to WWV without stating manually is misleading. Stating that it _must_ be done manually is redundant. No wonder their manual makes no mention of this supposed feature. Brian Garrett -Original

[time-nuts] WWV/WWVH audio simulator

2014-01-06 Thread Brian Garrett
its territories. (Amazing lack of latency, by the way. You could try recording WWV together with the overseas signal and checking the delays. I found them to be better than time.gov, most days. Brian Garrett ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts

Re: [time-nuts] Fast than light neutrino

2011-09-23 Thread Brian Garrett
Faster than in reggae but slower than in hip-hop. Brian -- From: Don Latham d...@montana.com Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 1:26 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Fast than

Re: [time-nuts] House subcommittee Democrats Urge Finding a Way for LightSquared and GPS Users to Co-Exist

2011-09-20 Thread Brian Garrett
I still can't understand how this ever got to be such a big deal, or why it continues to be. Even if the military weren't involved, the FCC has always been the 500-pound gorilla cracking down on everybody from drunken ham operators to national networks and 2-second wardrobe malfunctions. Why