[time-nuts] Talking Clock

[Dana Whitlow]

What kind of telephone service would one request for a talking clock, that
permits a
large number of users to be listening in at once?  I suspect that this
would be the real
difficulty and would incur considerable monthly expense.

Dana


On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 9:08 PM jimlux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On 9/30/19 3:00 PM, Neville Michie wrote:
> > Here in Australia we are suffering the loss
> > of one of the significant developments in accurate time keeping and
> dissemination.
> > The talking clock, built in England, with sound tracks on rotating glass
> disks,
> > has been on the Australian telephone system for more than half a century.
> > The system was timed by quartz oscillators, synchronised to the local
> observatory time.
> > Now in spite of the trivial cost of maintaining the system it has been
> removed by
> > the money-hungry telco which took over the government run telephone
> system.
> > Now it occurs to me that the sound tracks occupy a very small digital
> space, and
> > with modern flash drives and a little logic the talking clock could be
> driven by
> > any time nut's disciplined time source.
> > So is there a time nut who could design a voice output that we could all
> use?
> >
> > “At the third stroke the time will be…”
> >
>
>
>
> using Bash on my mac:
>
> $ date +"The time is now, %H, %M, %S, coordinated universal time" | say
> -v Karen
>
> I think that one could do a bit of scripting and have it have your
> preferred wording, and synchronized to the top of the second.
>
> I leave it as an exercise for the reader to do it in French:
> $ say -v Amelie "Le Temps Universel Coordonné"
>
>
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