From: "Glenn Meadows" 

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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>> 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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