[Austinite007]

I was wondering how the text messaging time stamp works. It seems that it gets the date and time from the phone clock itself and not down from the server or a different source. If I turn my phone off for a while, receive text messages while it is powered off, and then turn it back on at a later time it stamps all text messages received while turned off as the time when I just turned the phone on at that moment even though that is not when I actually received the text messages. I cannot remember having problems with this when I used the stock ROM a long time ago, but I do remember a huge time stamp bug a while back and getting the current time/date from the phone's clock was the work around solution for the time. Is there any possibility that SMS messages can be stamped with the proper time/date without having to rely on the phone's clock or is this just not possible? Is there any time stamp information that is silently transmitted with each text message, depending on your service provider of course, and then can that information be used to properly mark each incoming text message with the correct time/date without using the phone's clock?
I am using a Sprint HTC Touch Pro with Energy.HERMAN.21681.Sense2.5.Cookie.2.0.0.Oct.09.