GrainneDhu
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I've never trusted the CCTV time stamp. The only thing it's been cross referenced to is the owner's own cell phone and who knows how accurate that is. And then we have TG's cell phone and the person he was on the phone with whose own phone's time is a minute off of TG's. There could be a real gap between the CCTV-owner's cell phone and TG's cell phone. All this talk of split second timing and can the girls make it across town in seven or eight minutes seems like a lot of splitting hairs when we basically know nothing about how accurate any of the times involved actually are in reference to each other.
The only thing I can say is that I believe Mr Pahl's cell phone time is accurate. In the following article, it specifies that he has a US Cellular phone:
http://wcfcourier.com/news/evansdal...cle_c7394e3c-d6a6-11e1-a4f3-0019bb2963f4.html
I also have a US Cellular phone, so the first time this was discussed, I looked on my cell phone to see how the time was set. I couldn't remember ever setting the time myself. It turns out that it can only be set to a 12 hour clock or a 24 hour clock but the actual time cannot be set.
Then I called US Cellular to ask how my phone knows what time it is. The customer service person I talked to said that the time on my phone is adjusted every time my cell phone pings "several times each minute."
He said that the cell tower time is synchronised with the national time clock.
So we know Mr Pahl's cell phone time is accurate.
What we do not know is whether Mr Gamerdinger's cell phone is accurate.
I'm agreeing with you, just trying to clarify one teeny tiny point that means nothing in the overall scheme of things but I couldn't stop myself.
I apologise.