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iPhone4 clock 44.5 seconds slow

staccato83 said:
To which clock are you all comparing your iPhones to? I really don't care if my clock is 44.5 seconds slow, but I have nothing better to do on my day off. ;)
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Google'd "what time is it" this may help.

Looks like my MBP clock is dead accurate, (at least as quick as I can look between the middle of the screen and the top right) maybe 0.1-0.2 sec off
 
vaper said:
The clock on my iphone4 is running 44.5 seconds behind. It's set to update time automatically. I'm using both the clock on my macbook and 2 atomic G-Shocks for reference. Re-booting my phone is of no affect. I've compared against 3G and 3GS iphones as well which are running the correct time. Is anybody else experiencing this?
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your holding it wrong lol J/k :p no i think its some sort of delay with cell towers and what not
 
Hellishness said:
Google'd "what time is it" this may help.

Looks like my MBP clock is dead accurate, (at least as quick as I can look between the middle of the screen and the top right) maybe 0.1-0.2 sec off
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Thanks for the link.

My clock was 16 seconds slow. I did the "set to manual then back to automatic" trick and now I am 4 seconds slow.

I can sleep better at night now. (and awaken at the appropriate time) ;)
 
my 3GS is running fast compared to my MacBook and digital cable box, only by a few seconds. not enough for me to start a thread about it :rolleyes:
 
staccato83 said:
To which clock are you all comparing your iPhones to? I really don't care if my clock is 44.5 seconds slow, but I have nothing better to do on my day off. ;)
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I wear a watch, I have a work phone and my iPhone. I also have a clock in my work truck and non of them match time. So I can't believe that people rely on 1 clock like this for everything. There are times I don't even carry a cell phone with me at work because of the chance of it breaking or it getting lost.

Hellishness said:
Google'd "what time is it" this may help.

Looks like my MBP clock is dead accurate, (at least as quick as I can look between the middle of the screen and the top right) maybe 0.1-0.2 sec off
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according to this I'm 41.5 seconds off
 
this has gotten a little off track. it was not my point to suggest that I need a clock to be accurate to the second, much less to a split second. it's just that if a clock is incorporated in a device, and that device has an automatic update feature, that clock should be accurate. that's all. my phone's clock was off by a significant amount, IMO. apparently this was the case with others' phones.
 
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jfyrfytr25 said:
i noticed this. try turning of automatic update for the time and them manually set it for like 6 hours behind. then turn automatic updates back on and when it pulls the correct time back in it should be closer to accurate.
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Worked like a charm, thanks!! Only 10 seconds slow now. :)
 
I turned off the automatic setting, set the phone to a wrong time, turned the 'set automatically' back on, re-booted and now its spot on accurate. thanks for the fix.
 
my first gen iphone kept perfect time with that displayed on my computer's (network synced) clock.

my iphone 4 seems to lose two seconds every day even though i've selected the date and time to "set automatically".

at the moment, my iphone 4 is one minute and two seconds behind network time. i guess i can just manually add a minute every month.

i wonder where, and how often the iphones are getting their time information "set automatically"?
 
A whole 44.5 seconds!! That is crazy! OMG how can you put up with a phone like that? I would take it back and demand a refund! I also personally think that Steve Jobs should hold another press conference to address this major glitch. Free pocket watches for everyone!

I think some people in here just look at their phones day after day just trying to find something to bitch about!:mad:
 
I noticed my lock weather app in LockInfo was updating 2 minutes faster than my iPhone clock. Checked the official U.S. time and my phone was almost 2 minutes slower. Turned off automatic and set my own time. Took a couple tries but now my phone is 1 second fast which is fine. 2 minutes slow is horrible.
 
iHeartapple2 said:
A whole 44.5 seconds!! That is crazy! OMG how can you put up with a phone like that? I would take it back and demand a refund! I also personally think that Steve Jobs should hold another press conference to address this major glitch. Free pocket watches for everyone!

I think some people in here just look at their phones day after day just trying to find something to bitch about!:mad:
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apparently some people in here just look at other posts until they find something to bitch about.

take the time and maybe read through the thread. sound out the big words or move on
 
throwen said:
my first gen iphone kept perfect time with that displayed on my computer's (network synced) clock.

my iphone 4 seems to lose two seconds every day even though i've selected the date and time to "set automatically".

at the moment, my iphone 4 is one minute and two seconds behind network time. i guess i can just manually add a minute every month.

i wonder where, and how often the iphones are getting their time information "set automatically"?
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I also have 4G with the latest iOS. My iPhone is 55 seconds slow which is really weird... I'm comparing it against my computer clock which is synced to ntp servers in europe. So it has the correct time to some +-20 millisec.

My old phone also syncs cell network time and it has the correct time with +-1 second. It's actually really hard to compare times shorter than 1 sec cuz many modern computers cache their paint events... so display is not updated immediately after the time flips one second ahead. Might also affect iOS4?! And most definitely affects my computer display!

But what is really weird is that how does iPhone get the 55 sec slow with automatic update? Cell time should be really near the correct time! (Sync with GPS time directly from satellites) Does it add some thing to it?! Or is it just so slow to update the clock in iPhone?

Of course if iPhone4 is slewing the time instead of stepping it could be either slow or fast... but when updated to correct time it should keep it!

Another thing.. The GPS chip on thee iPhone has micro-second-accurate time? (if iphone shows your position correctly within a mile it's GPS-chip has time less than a millisecond off from correct time) Why would iOS not sync it's systemtime with the GPS? Why is user let with the incorrect time?

The main question here is what I think that why provide wrong time to system if the device has got the correct time? Pour software design? :p
 
Same problem here, also the ip4 doesnt change times when i change time zones (i cross from eastern to central in am, and central to eastern in pm) 3gs switches, but ip4 does not.


I carry both phones.

Both set to automatically update time.
 
Noticed it

I first noticed this issue when I switched from my 1g- the iphone 4 would give me calendar alerts approx. 40 secs later than my 1st gen.

It may not seem like a big deal, but I support the OP- it is nice to have the most accurate time possible.

Hopefully, it's just a bug in the software and how it relates to the cell tower that will be fixed at a later date.
 
my 3GS is also late like your iPhone 4 OP, I think the culprit is iOS 4, maybe when I update to 4.1 it will stop being almost a min late....
 
Obviously its not a huge deal but the people going OMGZZ!! 44.5 Seconds!@!! need to shut the **** up and elave the thread, jeez why even open the thread for comments like that.

Moving on. Mine used to be about a minute slow and it wasn't a huge deal but kind of annoying, especially when I would use iTV to see what favorites of mine were on when a show ended and I had to sit and wait for my phones time to catch up to the real time before I could look. I just set it manually and it works fine now!
 
COSWORTH said:
Same problem here, also the ip4 doesnt change times when i change time zones (i cross from eastern to central in am, and central to eastern in pm) 3gs switches, but ip4 does not.
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Strange. This past weekend I was in Central time and my iP4 switched over automatically with no announcement. I drove, so it's not a matter of it checking when coming out of airplane mode.
 
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