[time-nuts] NITZ Timestamps

Tom Harris celephicus at gmail.com
Wed Aug 21 18:59:42 EDT 2013


Here's a general question about the NITZ timestamp that is sent by the
phone tower when your mobile connects to it. Why are they so far off from
the actual time? I have seen offsets up to 15 seconds behind, mind you this
was from a tower in the bush, city towers are usually only 2 secs behind.

Tom Harris <celephicus at gmail.com>


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