GSM Network Time

[W.Kenworthy]

Not quite - it should be "if available" - network time is not part of
the base GSM standard but an extension which many (most?) networks done
use.  The zone is part of the standard, but if your provider crosses
multi timezones as here in australia, you might not be able to properly
use it.

Beware using the default time server for network time - in europe it
might be ok, but it has jitter and offset here in australia at times -
set it to a local timeserver in /etc/frameworkd.conf.

Time keeping has improved a lot, but I still find I connect to a network
or use GPS once a day to make sure it stays on time.

BillK



On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 18:31 +0100, Marc Verwerft wrote:
> The section about Date/time settings in the SHR wiki from openmoko
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR_User_Manual#Date_and_time says:
> "Date and time are automatically set from GPS or Network"
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marc
> 
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Esben Stien <b0ef at esben-stien.name> wrote:
> > Any way to extract the time from the GSM network and have the time set
> > based on this?.
> >
> > Any distro that does this or any tools available?.
> >
> > Many phones have this capability.
> >
> > It would also be nice to set the time based on GPS, when that is
> > available, but often when indoors, only GSM works.
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