摘要 |
<p>A mobile phone of this invention has a clock display (22) therein, is in wireless communication with a second base station (14) located in a second time zone (30) having a current local time (CLT) and transportable to be in wireless communication with a first base station (12) in a first time zone (28), upon securing communications with a base station, synchronizes its internal clock to the CLT of the base station, and includes: a selection mechanism for use by a user to select a home time zone (HTZ), and to select a displayed time on a clock display (22) from the group of displayed times consisting of the CLT and a time in the HTZ; and a displayed time calculating mechanism which determines the time displayed on the clock display (22) as a function of the CLT and the HTZ. The mobile phone is capable of keeping time accurately as required even when it is located near a boundary between adjacent time zones (28, 30). <IMAGE></p> |