Re: Android time

On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 09:47 +1300, David L Neil wrote:
> Per full-fat Linux systems (via NTP) does Android offer program/API 
> level access to an highly accurate and common-access time source?
> 
> (I don't (yet) have an Android phone or even this level of
> access?trust 
> to one)
> 
> Accuracy: tenths of a second but hundredths better. Available to any
> and 
> all users.
> 
> Source might be (I'm imagining) GPS or a cell system heartbeat, if
> not 
> traditional Internet NTP.
> 
> Will be v.happy to receive pointers to 'homework reading'...


hi David,

Stock android supports getting time from the network, but that doesn't
work on Vodafone in NZ (they don't provide the time info), unsure about
Telecom XT.


You can download apps (clocksync is the one I use) that provide NTP
synchronisation, but IIRC, they might require a rooted phones.

Considering the phones have GPSes there may be some apps out there that
can use that as a source.

regards,
jethro

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