Temporal mystery
- Issues, iPhone -
Here’s a poser for the experts among you: Does anyone know which time server the iPhone updates its clock by, or how?
Common sense would tell us it either gets it from the Mac it’s synced to, or online from a specified server (in which case a server endorsed by Apple), but whatever the case it should tell the same time either way, right?
Maybe it’s just my unit, but my automatically-time-synced desktop Mac and my iPhone are constantly five minutes apart. I can’t find a time-server choice anywhere on the iPhone’s settings, or on iTunes.
Why is my iPhone always 5 minutes late? That’s a big deal. It syncs to something for sure - I know this because I sometimes manually set it to the right time, but after syncing it with iTunes, it moves back again.
A possible answer is that it time-syncs with the carrier it’s connected to (in my case Smart), but I can’t tell for sure.
This mystery bugs me no end.
