[LEAPSECS] DCF77, HBG, MSF, two out of three

[Richard B. Langley]

The clock on my Bell Mobility (CDMA) phone is clicking over about 2 seconds FAST.

Quoting Brian Garrett <mgy1912 at cox.net>:


> 

> ----- Original Message ----- 

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> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 1:57 PM

> Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] DCF77, HBG, MSF, two out of three

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> 

> >> From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>

> >>

> >> DCF77 got right, as always.

> >>

> >> HBG also got it right this time.

> >>

> >> MSF still fumbles the DUT1 bits.

> >>

> >> http://phk.freebsd.dk/Leap/20081231/

> >

> > Very nice.  Alas, my receiver isn't close enough to the computer and I 

> > didn't think to record the signal.

> >

> > WWV got it right, as far as I could tell.  I'm not sure if the DUT1 bits 

> > were correct in the first minute or not.

> >

> Sprint's cellular network has still NOT got it right,after four days.  My 

> cell phone, whose time display used to change right on the tick of the UTC 

> second, is now one second slow.  Sprint is a CDMA network, which as far as I 

> know runs on GPS time, so it would appear that some code indicating the 

> number of seconds difference between UTC and GPS ws not updated.

> 

> GSM networks like T-Mobile and AT&T are just fine with wall-clock time so 

> they can happily be off by two minutes and no one but us anal-retentives 

> will know or care :)  Verizon is CDMA so they should have updated, unless 

> they goofed like Sprint.

> 

> 

> Brian Garrett 

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