[LEAPSECS] Dava Sobel article about Charlottesville meeting

[Steve Allen]

On Mon 2013-07-22T19:18:00 -0400, Gerard Ashton hath writ:

> The instructor claimed that the times displayed by different

> cell phones can vary by several minutes.


See two adjacent iPhones on the same carrier network

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/07/what-at-t-doesnt-run-ntpd/

This begs the question:  Did you pay enough to get a precision timing
device when you bought that phone?

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