Reply to post: Re: client should never accept a time that's wildly different

iOS 'date bug' can be exploited over Wi-Fi using NTP

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Re: client should never accept a time that's wildly different

Yeah but if you fly to Australia from the UK, in Australia, your phone will still connect to time.apple.com. You get the same result back, so there's no shift in time. Your phone adds the 11 hours or whatever once it knows what timezone it is in via the phone network.

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