XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: horace@horacealgiers.com   
      
   On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 23:47:54 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
      
   >>> Do you turn off "location access" in all the apps that don't need it?   
   >> Yes.   
   >>> why does the basic *clock* need location access?   
   >> Mine doesn't. (clock version 4.5.2)   
   > To change to the local time of the location you are at.   
      
   While a clock app *might* need to know the GPS location in order to figure   
   out what time zone it's in, "my" clock is doing fine without having access   
   to the GPS location.   
      
   Of course, I haven't changed time zones in the past two days, but, there   
   *is* a "Date and time" setting in Android 4.3:   
   XXXXX   
      
   Notice that I have set:   
   [x] Automatic date and time (Use network-provided time)   
   [x] Automatic time zone (Use network-provided time zone)   
      
   So, um, er ... can't the clock get the time and time zone from the   
   so-called "network-provided" time and time zone?   
      
   If the clock is not getting the time and time zone from the network, how   
   does it get the *time* merely from the GPS location? [It can't.]   
      
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