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o Aperture o I think Microsoft did it this way because the time served by your local provider towers would always be set to local time, and probably expected most providers to have the protocol turned on. I expect that internet time servers weren't used for some good reason or that the IP address may not geolocate correctly to your own location.
I guess using an internet server drains battery due to the (minimum) data connection needed every now and then. Still I wouldn't mind it they did it ala HTC; if you lost NZIT connection keep/use last configured time instead of resetting it. Or keep it as a backup option?
I'm only making assumption here, I'm as frustrated as you are that I have to manually set the date/time after a reset (doubly annoying when I don't have access to a watch/clock at the time).
I know, a bit frustrated, but still overly pleased with the OS. I only found about it when I was trying to download new apps last week.
There are apps that display the current time from a time server (ClockSync is one) which can show you how close your phone's time is to the time server's time.
Will check it out. Thanks.
As long as you're within 5 minutes or so, there won't be any adverse affects with the phones functionality (syncing emails, etc).
I was at Amsterdam -brilliant short vacation destination- over the last four days. While my Lumia survived on battery, using WiFi at the hotel and offline maps (great feature), due to the French strikes I had over 7 hours delay and redirected from Gatwick to Luton yesterday. My phone got off battery, the airport was pretty busy and with European sockets instead of the triple, UK ones to charge it. Long story short, I got home at 3 o' clock this morning. I went to bed, after puting the phone on a charger and setting up an alarm. I woke up at "8:30" and walked to work by "9:30". When I got there, the office was deserted! Then I realised from my PC's time, that the time was again wrong on my phone.... It was 8 in the morning. I was/am like a zoombie the whole day. I worry mostly about adverse affects on me than on the phone. xD Still a bit fun story to tell.