On Monday 16 March 2009, Daniel Willmann wrote: > I think (not sure) that Qt Extended uses the time(zone) cellbroadcast > messages which are broadcasted by some operators.
Yeah, I think you're right, the code says: The TimeUpdate service monitors time and timezone data from sources such as the modem and updates the system time and timezone accordingly. I can't find where it actually polls the modem though. > In Germany for example nobody sends these so the framework looks up the > country code of the GSM cell we're logged in and changes the timezone > according to the zone this country belongs to. This is > problematic/inaccurate/annoying for countries that span different > timezones like the USA, Russia, Australia Yup, and don't assume that all TZ's are 1 hour apart, Adelaide is 30 minutes different from here.. ;-) cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP
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