[time-nuts] Handy iPhone app

[Thomas A. Frank]

FWIW, my iphone is presently 15 seconds slow wrt Emerald (which  
matches my GPS based clock as closely as my eye can judge).

Tom Frank, KA2CDK

On Jul 15, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Mark Gulbrandsen wrote:

>  Now if only Apple would allow Emerald Time to correct the i- 
> phone's internal clock we'd actually have something. By using  
> Emerald Time my i-phone's internal clock has shown itself to be off  
> by as much as 12.4 seconds. That no longer qualifies as a usable  
> clock to me. If I am out somewhere and want to know what time it is  
> I have to bring Emerald Time up in order to see. You would think  
> the phone would be receiving it's time from AT&T's standards... but  
> apparently not. There is no way AT&T would be 12.4 seconds off  
> which makes it apparent that Apple does not allow any correction of  
> the phone's internal clock. To others here using the i-Phone... how  
> far off is your i-Phone's internal clock???