[LEAPSECS] DCF77, HBG, MSF, two out of three

[Jonathan E. Hardis]

>Sprint's cellular network has still NOT got it right,after four 

>days.  My cell phone, whose time display used to change right on the 

>tick of the UTC second, is now one second slow.  Sprint is a CDMA 

>network, which as far as I know runs on GPS time, so it would appear 

>that some code indicating the number of seconds difference between 

>UTC and GPS ws not updated.

>

>...  Verizon is CDMA so they should have updated, unless they goofed 

>like Sprint.


My experience with one of the CDMA carriers is that when Daylight 
Savings Time begins or ends, the handset display is not updated until 
you make a call.

Yes, the cell sites of CDMA carriers sync to GPS so that they are in 
sync with each other at the microsecond level.  However, what you're 
seeing could also be a user-equipment issue.

   - Jonathan