[time-nuts] sub-minute time-precision in court-case

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <5225F8AF.60807 at earthlink.net>, Jim Lux writes:

>In this case, all the messages were presumably handled by the same 
>carrier, so the issue of skew in timestamps is negligible; 

Anything but.

The text-messages are likely stamped by the SS7-message-gateway
and the 911 call by the countys 911 equipment.

And yes, there can be quite a delay from you press "send" until
the SS7-message-gateway sees the text-message.

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