I'm on the digest, so excuse me if this is redundant. I just checked my AT&T HTC Pure (a Windows Mobile phone). It's time matches my Trimble to within a second. Armand KI7J Southern AZ USA
------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:09:15 -0700 From: Rex <r...@sonic.net> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Handy iPhone app To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts@febo.com> Message-ID: <4c429a8b.7040...@sonic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Thomas A. Frank wrote: > > On Jul 16, 2010, at 4:08 AM, Peter Monta wrote: > >> Rex <r...@sonic.net> wrote: >> >>> I just eyeballed the minute turn-over but it was clearly within >>> about a second. >> >> Well, apparently it is a phone issue and not a cell-tower issue. >> Searching the support forums yields the following trick: disable >> the automatic time setting, set it manually to a grossly wrong >> time, then put it back to the automatic setting, causing it to >> reacquire the time. Now my phone is within 3 seconds of NTP. > > Didn't fix the problem here in RI. > > Same 15 second error after the fact... > > Oh well. I don't really use it as a clock anyway... > > Tom Frank, KA2CDK > Curious if you have any comparison you can make with a non-Apple phone? Seems to me that the problem points there, but we need some non-iPhone comparisons in the far (timing-wise) locales to see if there is a clear pattern. Also, I don't have an iPhone. Is there any other way than this Emerald thing to measure the clock? ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts End of time-nuts Digest, Vol 72, Issue 60 ***************************************** _______________________________________________ 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.