Talk:Speaking clock

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thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Time/Assessment|WikiProject Time assessment rating]] comment 

message: It looks like the article on California's POPCORN speaking clock number has been tagged for merger into Speaking clock for about two months at this point. I'm a little reluctant to go ahead and do it, given that POPCORN has a couple of pop culture references that might not fit easily under this entry, but it shouldn't be too difficult to make it fit. Any discussion? --Morrand 02:15, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't see any reason why not to merge it.  We can just make a "speaking clock in popular culture" section and include those, neither of the references even seem to be specific to POPCORN. Night Gyr 16:46, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have done the merge, but it require a little bit of proofreading and cleaning up. Cheers, Schutz 11:18, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal to merge POPCORN to here

message: First of all, it's a bit suspicious that it's won by a voiceover artist.
Question, though - is this gonna be a permanent thing, or just for a limited time as part of Children in Need? BillyH 00:06, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New UK speaking clock voice 

message: That was alluded to on one of Evan Doorbell's recordings. --  Denelson83  01:40, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about NERVOUS in New York? 

message: Popcorn was actually disconnected on September 19, 2007. I'm new to Wikipedia so I wasn't sure how to edit the page or even if I should, but it may seem like it's kind of a useful bit of knowledge.
Duckygotgrr (talk) 03:23, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popcorn Disconnected 

message: Article: "For many years the number was 926 but due to the EU regulations reserving all 3-digit numbers for emergency services only, it was changed in the early 2000s."
Never heard of this EU regulation on 3 figure numbers... here in the UK, the Speaking Clock is 123. 91.84.123.97 (talk) 22:25, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The only 3-digit code specified by EU Directives that I'm aware of is 112 for emergency services.  There are some other combinations of an initial three digits (with other digits to follow) also listed for specific services, such as 118xxx for directories and 116xxx for services of "harmonised social value."   But there's certainly nothing to prevent other 3-digit codes to be used.  87.112.169.219 (talk) 15:10, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Poland

message: TellMe (1-800-555-TELL) just announced that their phone line, including the time service, is being discontinued as of June 1.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.73.31.50 (talk) 17:13, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  TellMe was going to be discontinued. 

message: If your cell phone has died how are you going to phone the speaking clock?  Zepfel (talk) 15:01, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cell phone died 

message: The details on dialing codes, dates of introduction and discontinuance, and much else, is fancruft. The article should focus on the need for the service, early efforts, development of technology over time, and ongoing "phaseout" (for lack of a better term). EEng (talk) 01:55, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fancruft 

message: Assmann?  Seriously?  Is this (a) a misspelling of Ansmann (b) someone being hilarious or (c) genuinely a separate device?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.127.54.3 (talk) 01:52, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably either misspelling, or someone trying to be funny.--Stainless Steel Stalinism (talk) 08:48, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: No, Assmann is neither a typo nor a joke. Instead, it's just more of the unsourced pileup in this mess. - SummerPhDv2.0 17:30, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assmann and Ansmann? 

message: Hello, everyone.
When I lived in the U.K., in the 1990s, I would sometimes dial the speaking-clock, 123, and hear Brian Cobby.  I'm trying to write a complete record of the options of the times that he spoke.  Would you, please, tell me whether I have the following right, and specify what should go in the parts that I have put in bold type?
* At the third stroke, the time, sponsored by Accurist, will be
** [Hours:] [“zero”? “twelve”? something else?] / one / two / three / four / five / six / seven / eight / nine / ten / eleven / [“twelve”? “midday”, with no “o’clock”? something else?] / thirteen / fourteen / fifteen / sixteen / seventeen / eighteen / nineteen / twenty / twenty-one / twenty-two / twenty-three
** [Minutes:] o’clock / O one / O two / O three / O four / O five / O six / O seven / O eight / O nine / ten / eleven / twelve / thirteen / fourteen / fifteen / sixteen / seventeen / eighteen / nineteen / twenty / twenty-one / twenty-two / twenty-three / twenty-four / twenty-five / twenty-six / twenty-seven / twenty-eight / twenty-nine / thirty / thirty-one / thirty-two / thirty-three / thirty-four / thirty-five / thirty-six / thirty-seven / thirty-eight / thirty-nine / forty / forty-one / forty-two / forty-three / forty-four / forty-five / forty-six / forty-seven / forty-eight / forty-nine / fifty / fifty-one / fifty-two / fifty-three / fifty-four / fifty-five / fifty-six / fifty-seven / fifty-eight / fifty-nine
** [Seconds:] precisely / and ten seconds / and twenty seconds / and thirty seconds / and forty seconds / and fifty seconds
* [beep, beep, beep]
Thanks.  — President Lethe (talk) 16:16, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exact wording of BT speaking clock in the United Kingdom 

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message: It was always my ambition to be the speaking clock, not recorded but live, all the time.  Even my wife refers to me as the 'speaking clock' when we have an appointment somewhere.  Just had to get this off my chest.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.163.101.38 (talk) 07:33, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confession...