Maybe the 15 second offset was to compensate for the old Android bug that
derived time from GPS rather than UTC ; Sprint told me at that time they
drove most towers with Stratum 2 ref. and only my Android phones exhibited
the issue. The other ones were no more than 0.1 sec off.
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Tom Harris wrote:
> Here's a general question about the NITZ timestamp that is sent by the
> phone tower when your mobile connects to it. Why are they so far off from
> the actual time? I have seen offsets up to 15 seconds behind, mind you this
> was from a tower in the bush, city towers are usually only 2 secs behind.
>
> Tom Harris
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