860287 - Time set manually drifts quickly

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

I do not see an option to have date/time set automatically in my Unagi, presumably due to incompatibilities with my Vodafone GR SIM card. So I have set it manually to the correct time, but I noticed today that it had drifted about 10 minutes away in a couple of days. I know that because I used the Reset Phone option on Monday and had to set the time again.

How come B2G doesn't sync with NTP servers while I am on wifi at least?

Comment 1

[Kai-Chih Hu [:khu]]

Is bug 714355 related to what you are saying?

Comment 2

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

(In reply to khu from comment #1)
> Is bug 714355 related to what you are saying?

I'm not sure. My attempts to find out whether Vodafone GR supports NITZ came up empty. I certainly had the SIM card in the phone when I observed the time drift, so it doesn't look like bug 714355 is immediately applicable here. If you can provide me with instructions to verify whether NITZ is used, I'll be happy to do so.

Comment 3

[Kai-Chih Hu [:khu]]

I don't have the answer. Not sure if Gene has such instruction?

Comment 4

[Gene Lian (I already quit Mozilla)]

If the carrier/SIM you're using can support NITZ, then the "Set automatically" option must be shown in the Setting App -> Date & Time. If not, then that means:

  - Vodafone doesn't support NITZ.
  - we're having a bug!

Comment 5

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

(In reply to Gene Lian [:gene] from comment #4)
> If the carrier/SIM you're using can support NITZ, then the "Set
> automatically" option must be shown in the Setting App -> Date & Time. If
> not, then that means:
> 
>   - Vodafone doesn't support NITZ.
>   - we're having a bug!

It doesn't show up, but I don't know how to tell which one of these two conditions hold. Another reason for me not dismissing the possibility of a Vodafone-related bug, is that I don't get the Data and A-GPS settings dialogs populated with values, even though I can see apn.json containing values for Vodafone GR. I always have to enter custom settings in those panels.

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

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