[time-nuts] Re: Where do people get the time?

[Steve Allen]

On Sun 2021-12-26T02:06:07+0100 Attila Kinali hath writ:
> Cellphone network time distribution is something rather new
> and didn't exist until EDGE (or was it HSDPA?) came along.
> But once it was available, it was "good enough", i.e. the
> time offset was low enough to be not perceivable (~100ms).
> At least in Europe.

Did everyone involved in designing the hardware and software
intend that phone to have precise time?

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

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