The Android code only assumes UTC, except that you can use a small extension
to the NITZ string to encode the timezone too.
See the comment and implementation in handleOfInit() in
external/qemu/telephony/android_modem.c here:

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/external/qemu.git;a=blob;f=telephony/android_modem.c;h=6e73411d9fdd706b8f369684c03451e6e8d7221a;hb=master

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:47 PM, ms12 <mstic...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, got that to work, thanks.
> Discovered that the time comes back in local time zone, not UTC.
> Android code assumes UTC.  The timezone comes with it of course, but
> if you don't know if it has already been applied, I would think it
> difficult to determine in the code.  Is there a standard for this?
> Mike
>
> On Mar 3, 5:22 pm, David Turner <di...@android.com> wrote:
> > Yes, you can use a NITZ unsolicited message. See
> > hardware/ril/reference-ril/reference-ril.c:onUnsolicited()
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:25 PM, ms12 <mstic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Is there a way to set the system time from the cell phone?  I've
> > > searched ril.h and ril_commands.h and there seems to be no way to
> > > request the time from the cell modem.  Am I missing something?
> >
> > > Mike
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