The time displayed on most Android phones is wrong  Summary:The
problem dates back to an Android bug first uncovered in December
2009.  Did you know that the time displayed on most Android
handsets is wrong? Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains why to
Joshua Topolsky in the latest episode of On The Verge.  Tyson
talks about the issue at the 15m 20s mark.  Most Android devices
set the time based on the data they receive from GPS signals.
While the clocks on the GPS satellites are incredibly accurate
atomic clocks, the timekeeping system used by them was defined
up to 1982.  A total of 15 'leap seconds' have been added to the
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) time scale since then, which
Android handsets don't compensate for, so these handsets are
running exactly 15 seconds too fast.  The GPS signal does
include the offset difference between GPS time and UTC in the
message it sends to receivers, but it seems that this
information isn't being used by Android to correct for the leap
seconds.  Interestingly enough, thi