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 <[email protected]> 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" > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
