Why is Messages.app using my location?

By chance, I happened to notice the 'location' icon in the menu bar, it was saying the Messages.app was using my location... Why? I've got my iPhone set to be the source of location (Settings->iCloud->Advanced->Share My Location) so I'm happy with that, but I'm puzzled as to why the Messages app on the Mac would be using it? Google hasn't turned up anything, and it doesn't seem that there is anything on this forum either?
I do understand I can switch this off in the settings, my question is "why is the app using my location?", what is the reason?
Robert.

Hi,
I am not sure I explained it that well.
Before iMessages Phones used to send SMS messages.
The identifier you saw depended on what the other phone gave out.
In the UK that tends to be the Carrier service as Area Code and then the Number. That means my carrier gets 7973 preceded by an 0  for the British telephone system.
Obviously most people I know have UK telephone number of UK mobile phone services numbers.
The Messages app on the Mac can use the iPhone Number but does so over the Internet and not by the Phone service
The App then has the Country Code set.
If your Phone number in he Contacts app does not list the Country Code then this adds it.
As far as I can tell it adds it to all numbers that are missing the Country Code (most people collect the 11 digit number with the leading 0)
Of course the chances are your iPhone is not always where your computer it either.
As for the Time Servers.  Apple has three based around the world and you can enter your own if you wish.
I would guess that all of them are linked to a master time device at some point.
On the other hand it is strange that it appears in the Menu Bar when it has not before.
8:03 pm      Sunday; December 21, 2014
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