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(@armresl)
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Not being carrier specific, what have been your experiences with this type of situation.

You are driving through an area and have a signal just fine, call drops, signal goes to 0 bars and then no service. 45 minutes later you hit a tower and get service back and notice 10 SMS, and 4 missed calls (insert any number you want in there)

The messages should show the time they were actually sent from the other user, not the time you were able to ping the newest tower. Right or Wrong?

From my experiences with ATT it does show the time of the message being sent, however people have said that they have been out of service for a long time on a drive through a rural area, and were bombarded with a ton of SMS which all showed the time they hit the first available tower.

 
Posted : 18/09/2013 3:42 am
(@astro)
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On my Sprint BlackBerry it shows the time(s) the messages hit my phone. I'm pretty sure it does the same thing when I shut my phone off at night and turn it on again in the morning. The new messages have the same time – the time I turn the phone on. I'll verify this next time I'm able to.

 
Posted : 19/09/2013 6:26 am
Adam10541
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That's been my experience too, when the messages are received on the phone, but admittedly I haven't had to dig in to that much so I can't really comment on any variances that may occur from carrier to carrier or phone to phone.

 
Posted : 19/09/2013 7:13 am
(@trewmte)
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The messages should show the time they were actually sent from the other user, not the time you were able to ping the newest tower. Right or Wrong?

Depending on which operating system (OS) is in use on the handset it could be the date/time can be determined from the handset clock and appended to the message (SQLdatabase) as seen on the handset GUI and not the network date/time stamp. It is not possible at this stage to confirm this as in the above discussion it isn't stated which handsets/OSs are relevant(?).

Moreover, the home network wouldn't usually allocate a new timestamp to the SMS date/time when traversing its own network merely because the intended receiving party's handset is out of contact (c.f. OP scenario with the handset being switched off for 45 mins).

Moreover, the sending party's message may be subject to a 'validity period'. See some pointers here

France Car Shootings and Mobile Evidence
http//trewmte.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/france-car-shootings-and-mobile-evidence.html

UICC Coding Schemes
46 = "SM Validity Period Expired"
http//sim2usim.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/uicc-coding-schemes.html

How would 'validity period' effectively operate in practice if every proxy/server/network added a new date and time stamp to the SMS wrapper (encrypted message, PDU, SMS header)?

SMS date/time stamp may/might change with possible causes, generally speaking, when crossing international mobile operator networks, network roaming (local/international) and/or tromboning.

 
Posted : 19/09/2013 10:30 am
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