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 <celephi...@gmail.com> 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 <celephi...@gmail.com> > _______________________________________________ > 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.
