From: Randy 

Geo. wrote:
> "mike"  wrote in message
> news:llm8v21ipn13cipark7g3coantge87l0ic{at}4ax.com...
>
>>>> Hmmm... I wonder if those billion new phones per year have
a hardware
>>>> clock that is local-time based or UTC based?
>>>
>>> phone clocks are set from the phone network, when I travel to another
>>> timezone the clock changes to match the zone I'm in. I don't think it
>>> will
>>> be a problem.
>>
>> That's an answer, but not to the question I asked.  :)
>
> It seems silly to me to make the clock any more complicated than just a
> simple clock that is set by the phone network.
>
> I'm sure apple would be willing to complicate it for you though. 
>
> Geo. (what's this picture of a bomb on your phone)
Not all phones update their internal clocks from the cellphone network.

Most of the CDMA-based phones do as their cell's use GPS as their
timesource; but the GSM phones I have had (based on some form of MSFT
Smartphone/Pocket PC Phone edition) get their time from Activesync.

Suprisingly, HP released a DST update Softpaq, and my phone flipped to DST
correctly. I haven't checked to see if HTC released a fix for my old
Smartphone, but I doubt it.

Randy

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