From: "Rich Gauszka" 

I had to do the same thing with my phone and Cingular.


"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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>I needed to power my phone off and then back on to get the time to change
>on Sunday.  Don't know how often it checks the local time when online.
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> Glenn M.
> "Geo."  wrote in message
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>> "mike"  wrote in message
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>>> That's what I was thinking.  I think there needs to be some manner of
>>> hardware clock in the phone, probably sync'd to UTC .
  Then each
>>> cell tells the phone what offset from UTC to use for that cell.  That
>>> offset is in persistent memory, as other configurable settings.
>>
>> Well I hacked into my phone and there really isn't enough there that I
>> would think it's anything other than a simple clock that gets reset to
>> the time of the celphone network it's on. I doubt it's using UTC and
>> timezones, the phone network might but I think the phone is much simpler
>> than that. From what I've seen they try to save space everywhere they can
>> in the phone.
>>
>> Geo.
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