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

Bill Dailey docdailey at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 20:01:15 EDT 2014


you would have to dig around and look.  I am sure there is.  I have played
with it for a year or two.  I put my own ntp server in there and was
frequently disappinted that it would prefer remote servers quite often..
which cant be better than mine.  I dont get that but otherwise I like it.

Bill


On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Shane Morris <edgecomberts at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bill,
>
> I just got Emerald Time for my iPad - quite a great app, considering I need
> accurate time for things. Is there a website for the app developer?
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Shane.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Bob Camp <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I *think* it’s even more specific than that. I’ve watched it switch time
> > driving down the road in Indiana. As we did zig zags over the time zone
> > line, the iPhone quite happily changed displayed time. My guess was that
> it
> > used GPS location info to decide which side of the line it was on.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > On Aug 4, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Glen Hoag <hoag at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > >> 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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Doc

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