[LEAPSECS] Mobile network time

[Ask Bjørn Hansen]

On Jul 23, 2013, at 9:00, Warner Losh wrote:


> Cellular *NETWORKS* know what time it is down to the microsecond level, but that isn't want's displayed on the phone...


At the recent leap seconds the clocks known to sync time off the CDMA network were among the last to "jump" the second (days later).  (Which I guess for their purposes (have a synchronized clock) is fine.

I might be wrong, but I didn't think GSM networks needed a synchronized clock.


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