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Originally Posted by Quoth
I'm sure this issue is incompetence rather than malicious intent by Amazon. The local clock getting too far out and then sync going a bit crazy is a good theory by @jhowell.
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Yes. The internet is rife with tech support recommending the frequent synchronization of a device's time with a time server to work around bugs in programs/games that communicate via network. It's not at all a stretch to think that a time drift of a several seconds could cause seemingly unrelated issues whenever connectivity is restored to a complex system.
All it would take is one developer (or a few) thinking that someone leaving WiFi off long enough for local time to drift to the point of becoming problematic is an extremely unlikely event. One not worth the time of protecting against with more code. And in the grand scheme of Kindle usership, they're probably right.