I doubt we will ever see good time keeping on an IOS type device. The problem is battery life. Good time keeping requires a stable local oscillator of some kind that must remain powered up 24x7. But to get the long battery life they must power off everything they possibly can. No mater how far technology advances it will always require less power to not ruin an oscillator then to run one.
I doubt Apple would run NTP in an iPhone. They don't want to multi task the CPU and there is no stable local oscillator to be disciplined. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:21 AM, David J Taylor <david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >> It's even worse on the WiFi iPad - there is no way to automatically set >> the >> time. You can only do it via the "Settings" page and that only gives you >> minute resolution. >> >> The Emerald-Sequoia app is nice, but since it can't actually "fix" the >> time, every app that has time constraints has to do its own NTP. > > Criminal, really! Even SNTP would be better. I had hoped it would be fixed > in iOS 5.0 as I'd seen it discussed in the beta groups. > > David > -- > SatSignal software - quality software written to your requirements > Web: http://www.satsignal.eu > Email: david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ 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.