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

Glen Hoag hoag at hiwaay.net
Mon Aug 4 13:19:51 EDT 2014


As someone who crosses time zone boundaries with relative frequency, I can tell you that the iPhone does indeed set it's time zone automatically, based on information the phone gets from the cellular network. 

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> On Aug 4, 2014, at 11:49, Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:38 AM, BIll Ezell <wje at quackers.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Clearly, just using something like NTP directly isn't all that useful
>> because you have to know your physical location to know what timezone
>> correction to appl
> 
> I'm pretty sure you have to set the time zone that is displayed.  It
> does not change based on location.  Although one col writ an app that
> would do that.  There are MANY clock apps some show multiple time
> zones.  Interannly the phone uses GMT (offset zero)
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Chris Albertson
> Redondo Beach, California
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