A Real Daylight Saving Time Imponderable

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OK, I accept that our cell's clocks automatically change their time by one hour when we cross the Colorado River from Arizona into Nevada. I thought, and asked my nephew, a retired Southwestern Bell Telephone employee, that the cell was communicating with a tower in AZ, Mountain Standard Time, and changed to a tower in NV, Pacific Standard, when it was carried across the state line. There's the imponderable.

Folks living right on the river, on the AZ side, have been complaining on Facebook that their cell's clocks have been jumping up and down an hour since Sunday, every so often!

So, I got the idea that if a cell is carried across the time-line while shut off, it should show the old time for awhile, when turned on, until it adjusts.

Or, these phones contain a GPS locating device.

Anybody solve this imponderable for me?

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[Grumpy Ol' Man]

I would think the GPS internal to the phone is triggering the switching between time zones. One should be able to turn off the GPS and solve that issue. However, solving one may lead to a number more problems.

If the GPS is turned off, your weather aps won't know where you are to give you correct information.
If the GPS is turned off, using the phone as a GPS... travel routing, restaurant finding, etc... won't work.
If the GPS is turned off, in case of an emergency would the "pinging" be shut off too? Could emergency workers find you with it shut off? That I don't know.

Best solution... move!!!!! :>)