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Originally Posted by Jeff Kirvin
Why would these be necessary on devices that have "carriers"? I can understand it for stand-alone Pocket PCs, but Phone Editions and Smartphones sync the time with the carrier signal, neh? So as soon as Sprint updates the time properly on their end, my phone should have the correct time.
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While CDMA carriers (Verizon, Sprint Alltel) do push out the time, GSM carriers (Cingular, T-Mobile) don't need to for network operations. Also, as others have pointed out, while the phone might know the absolute time where you are, it still can have an offset due to the PDA portion of the device "thinking" you are in a different time zone.
You should be able to test this yourself by simply switching time zones on your device and changing the time setting, then see if the carrier resets it for you. I don't think it will change your time zone settings.