[time-nuts] Re; New Wrist watch

[James Tucker]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Mike S <mikes at flatsurface.com> wrote:
> On 9/10/2012 6:36 PM, Bob Smither wrote:
>>
>>
>> May not be redundant for time nuts! I have an NTP client on my Android and
>> it
>> shows the network time (Sprint in my case) is often as much as 2 seconds
>> behind UTC.
>
>
> So that makes it, what, 21 seconds off? It should be 19 seconds ahead of
> UTC, since Sprint has a CDMA network, which works on GPS time.
>
> It's likely you have multiple processes trying to pull the clock in
> different directions. Left alone, Android devices sync to network time,
> which is GPS, not UTC, in many cases. It's a bug, IMHO, but that's the way
> it is.
>
>
>
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Interesting... I have two different phones (Mot. 'Droid, and Samsung
Galaxy Nexus) which each use a different source for time, in spite of
the fact that they are on the same carrier.  The 'Droid uses UTC, the
Nexus uses GPS (yes, they are (now) 16 seconds apart).
     JimT