XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: robin_listas@invalid.es   
      
   On 2016-09-24 02:04, Horace Algiers wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   It may do fine, but that doesn't mean that the designer of the clock   
   programmed it that way. As there are location services in the system,   
   and network time (notice: telephone network, not internet) is not always   
   accurate, if I were the programmer I would also ask the system for the   
   current location.   
      
      
   > So, um, er ... can't the clock get the time and time zone from the   
   > so-called "network-provided" time and time zone?   
      
   Yes, so what? That it can does not mean it does. As I said, if I were   
   programming for Android I would use anything I have available that I   
   like. I know that I'm not breaking any privacy, so do it.   
      
   Telephone network time is known to be problematic, anyway.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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