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scjcs · 11-28-2022, 11:30 AM

I agree you shouldn't have to connect to a WLAN but, as others have posted, this is possibly a strategy by Amazon to prevent bogus dates from purposefully being set to avoid loan deadlines etc. (Hope they never discover that Airplane Mode does the job too...)

If you're geeky and have low level access to your router, you could potentially set up a firewall setting for the Kindle that blocks all but NTP port 123. Maybe that would allow it to set its time while other services think there's no connection.

11-28-2022, 11:30 AM	#33
scjcs Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2021 Device: Kindle Paperwhite 10	Maybe leverage a firewall? I agree you shouldn't have to connect to a WLAN but, as others have posted, this is possibly a strategy by Amazon to prevent bogus dates from purposefully being set to avoid loan deadlines etc. (Hope they never discover that Airplane Mode does the job too...) If you're geeky and have low level access to your router, you could potentially set up a firewall setting for the Kindle that blocks all but NTP port 123. Maybe that would allow it to set its time while other services think there's no connection.