Action TIME_SET in android getting called many times without changing the time manually

I also had this same issue. It appears that if your device has the "Use network provided time" checked the device will periodically update the time. It seems like if the time is updated even for the smallest of time corrections the TIME_SET broadcast will happen... I wish that there was some threshold parameter that could be checked/used so that these minor time corrections are broadcast, or that there was a different broadcast for when the user explicitly changed the time versus the device was correcting itself.