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Yes modern smartphones often hardcode ntp servers and prob do ineffective hard resetting. Would be good to know more how they do it.


Things have changed a bit since the last time I had anything to with it, but you can read the Android source code: https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/mas...

NITZ is terrible. You only get one-second accuracy, a GMT offset, and a DST flag, and they can all be wrong at the whim of someone at the phone company.




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