Hi Here in Carlisle PA the same check shows the iPhone 3G "within a second". That's running 3G, with no odd settings on the phone.
Bob On Jul 16, 2010, at 3:06 AM, Rex wrote: > I'm in San Jose. (Same Bay you are talking about?) I am on AT&T but I have a > Motoroloa Razr that's at least a couple years old. > > I just checked the phone's displayed time vs the internet and also my GPS > receiver. I just eyeballed the minute turn-over but it was clearly within > about a second. Good enough for me on my phone. So, at least here where I am, > AT&T time is not off by even a couple seconds. Maybe the issue is another > iPhone problem. Do you have any friends on AT&T with Motorola phones you can > compare? > > -Rex > > > Peter Monta wrote: >> Here in the Bay Area, AT&T/iPhone time has gotten noticeably worse >> recently. The error used to be around 4 seconds; now it's 49 seconds (!). >> >> Emerald Time is fine for interactive use, but what I find very impolite >> is that AT&T's bad timestamps are written into the EXIF headers on photos. >> Sometimes I take pictures of sundials, for example, and a 49-second >> error is not negligible for a carefully made dial. >> >> It would be amusing to arrange for a long-term record of the offset of >> one's phone (which can of course change across multiple providers during >> travel), say by using a background process to take a sample every few hours >> against NTP sources or against GPS if the phone has it (or both). >> Then any photos can be batch-corrected later if desired. Apple, give >> me control over the time on my own phone, and please don't force me to >> resort to these schemes :-). >> >> Cheers, >> Peter Monta >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
