[time-nuts] Talking Clock

[Marco Davids]

I like:

https://uhr.ptb.de/
(press the speaker-icon to make it talk)

Needs some adaption for your timezone though.
(no rocket science)

--
Marco


On 01/10/2019 00:00, 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…”
> 
> cheers, 
> Neville Michie

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