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From: Brad Morris
Date: 2012 Oct 3, 09:06 -0700
There are various apps that are capable of setting your android cell phone time to a high degree of precision. "Clock Sync" and "UTC Time" are two, there are others.
The main problem with these is that you need to 'root' your phone, not a terrific idea IMHO.
The problem seems to be with permissions. The folks who administer Android have denied time setting permissions to apps, in effect you only get time from the network. The network time is indeed skewed. My phone shows a -15.36 second delta from time.nist.gov When you root your phone, you effectively circumvent that requirement, but also many others. That's why rooting is to be avoided.
Of course, this delta is just a watch error, something that can be adjusted for. Simply correct for the delta in the sight reduction. Knowing what the error is makes this a trivial exercise. Many of the older forms even have an entry for watch error.
Brad Morris
Frank:
Notwithstanding the fact that I'm not a devote of the now ubiquitous cell phone, your comment on the time keeping capabilities of the "latest Android OS, being back to where we were 8 years ago", gives rise to the following question. Is this progress?
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