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[BUG] Clock time changes by itself

asked 2014-08-19 11:06:32 +0300

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I have had this incident 3 times within a week.

I find out that Clock time is off about 12 hours, the minutes are correct. Going to settings I find that the automatic time is set off. This might be related to setting the alarm time. Made me miss my wake up alarm once, luckily I woke up only half an hour late and it was not the time to catch a flight! Can't trust this bugger anymore on critical alarms though.

The other two times I noticed the wrong time during the day with no problem. Going to settings and setting the automatic time corrects the time immediately.

Software version 1.0.8.19, Tahkalampi

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I noticed the same issue. Until today, the clock would get behind with a few minutes every couple of weeks, however, today I was late because it was about 15 minutes behind when I woke up. I activated the automatic update for now, but I would prefer to have a working clock without this option enabled.

Drekkarian ( 2014-09-05 12:51:13 +0300 )edit

So far I've had two random clock jumps.

Once it ran 5 mins late, another time 30 mins. I have never used the "Automatic update" from the Time and date settings.

ploy ( 2015-04-06 03:49:33 +0300 )edit

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answered 2014-09-05 13:21:47 +0300

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@Drekkarian I think that the reported issue is different because

that Clock time is off about 12 hours, the minutes are correct

An additional question would be if the Auto-update of the time fixes the problem permanently after that?

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Thank you for your answer. Indeed, the issues might be different. I noticed the mention of hours, but I posted here as it seemed related.

Since I left the automatic update on, the clock seems to stay accurate. Without the option, I had to periodically adjust the time with a few minutes. Is there any debugging I can do to help more on this issue? I am wondering if it could be related in any way to periodic restarts I also have, as others reported. Maybe the internal clock fails from time to time? or doesn't update during crashes?

Drekkarian ( 2014-09-05 13:49:13 +0300 )edit

I don't know deeply the area so I have no idea about further debugging... Maybe @pekka-vuorela can shed some light.

stezz ( 2014-09-09 13:52:08 +0300 )edit

Ok. Thanks. Until now, keeping Automatic Update set, the clock stayed on time. So, the problem is only when it runs by itself.

Drekkarian ( 2014-09-09 14:19:32 +0300 )edit

Clock drift is something more or less common in electronic devices, that is why we have mechanisms to fix it. Though it should not be _that_ bad.

stezz ( 2014-09-11 11:50:00 +0300 )edit
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answered 2015-01-05 02:22:05 +0300

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I have a similar issue with my 1.1.1.27 Sailfish OS! For a less than a day, my clock is jumping 1h and 30m behind my real time! My Timezone is Europe/Sofia and 'ntpd -gdq' from the root terminal can set the correct time back! If I can't use my phone as a simple organizer, then it's useless for me! Maybe some Android app is fucking the clock or the cellular provider (Mobiltel/Vodafone) is broadcasting a incorrect time. Please, make an option to disable a non native applications or cellular provider to be able to set the clock!

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It is indeed possible that the cellular network does not support time information (NITZ, see [1]).

@ilievdh: could you provide answers to the questions below to help us find out what's going on in your device:

  • Do you have an active sim card in your Jolla?
  • Do you have an internet connection set up (either mobile networking or WLAN)?
  • Do you have automatic time update enabled?
  • Is your time zone displayed correctly in the Settings app?
  • What is the output to the terminal command "rpm -q timed-qt5 connman" ?
  • What is the output to the terminal command "cat .timed/settings.data" ?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NITZ#Carriers_supporting_NITZ

PMG ( 2015-01-12 12:05:08 +0300 )edit

active sim - yes internet - both cellular data + wlan automatic time updated is off Timezone in Settings is correct "[root@Jolla ~]# rpm -q timed-qt5 connman timed-qt5-2.92-1.14.1.armv7hl connman-1.24+git48.1-1.5.1.armv7hl"

[root@Jolla ~]# cat .timed/settings.data cat: .timed/settings.data: No such file or directory [root@Jolla ~]# cat /home/nemo/.timed/settings.data cellular_zone = { value = "Europe/Sofia" }, format_24 = 1, local_cellular = 0, manual_offset = { value = 7200 }, manual_zone = { value = "Europe/Sofia" }, time_nitz = 0

I've added my timezone in /opt/alien/system/build.prop and on the next day there was a bigger offset on my clock from the real time. Then I've supposed that the timezone is calculated twice in the Alien Dalvik's VM. I've set "persist.sys.timezone=Etc/UTC" in /opt/alien/system/build.prop and since then I haven't have the issue with the clock anymore.

ilievdh ( 2015-01-14 03:08:01 +0300 )edit
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