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The Speaking Clock is 75 years old « Posted: 22 July 2011 at 09:42 PM »
Speaking Clock: Why are people still dialling for the time?

At the third stroke, the Speaking Clock will be 75 years old. But why in an era of laptops and mobiles do many people still get the precise time from a recording of a well-spoken woman?

Time is inescapable - it's there in the flick of a wrist, push of a mobile phone button and glance at a computer screen.

You could argue there is no real need to pick up a landline and dial 123 to hear BT's Speaking Clock and be charged 31p for doing so.

But the service still receives 30 million calls each year, with demand peaking on four very time-sensitive days


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By my reckoning that's an annual income of over £9.3 Million.
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Re: The Speaking Clock is 75 years old « Reply #1 Posted: 22 July 2011 at 11:09 PM »
Yes cant rthink f any time I ve needed to ring the talking clock and amazed in this day and age its still used so much, I wonder what the profile of those who use it is
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Re: The Speaking Clock is 75 years old « Reply #2 Posted: 22 July 2011 at 11:10 PM »
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Re: The Speaking Clock is 75 years old « Reply #3 Posted: 22 July 2011 at 11:48 PM »
yet amazingly I don't think we've had time "as we know it" for all that long. Up until trains were invented in the mid to late 1800's the time was different depending on where you lived. For instance , over here on the west coast where I live we have about 20mins more light in the evening so sun dials over here would have displayed a sightly different time to over in the East. It was train timetables that gave the necesity to ensure we had the same time across the country.
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Re: The Speaking Clock is 75 years old « Reply #4 Posted: 23 July 2011 at 12:06 AM »
It more or less states that in the article, Frankie.
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Re: The Speaking Clock is 75 years old « Reply #5 Posted: 23 July 2011 at 10:16 AM »
Quote from: Boatbuilder on 22 July 2011 at 09:42 PM
But why in an era of laptops and mobiles do many people still get the precise time from a recording of a well-spoken woman?

Funny as it may seem not everyone's attached to mobiles or laptops 24/7. 
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Re: The Speaking Clock is 75 years old « Reply #6 Posted: 23 July 2011 at 10:49 AM »
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It more or less states that in the article, Frankie.

I probably should have read it shouldn't I?
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Re: The Speaking Clock is 75 years old « Reply #7 Posted: 23 July 2011 at 10:53 AM »
As kids we often used to go into the phone box and dial 8081. It was exciting and wasn't it free?

At the third stroke it will be 10.54 precisely beep, beep, beep
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