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Do you remember how you could call that number from your landline phone to hear the exact time?
Did people do that before Shabbat to make sure they lit punctually?
Does anyone still do that?
Is it the same exact time, to the second, as your cell’s time?
How would it know your location if you didn’t call from a landline?
Thanks! 🙂
976-1616? Or was that the weather. Now you can go to time dot gov.
It only gave the minute and seconds, not the hour.
There are a few time zones that are 30 minutes offset from the other zones.
The number I used to use gave the date/time in GMT.
I think it used to cost 35 cents per call to the time or weather (or other 976 number.)
DovidBT, I don’t think people called from Iran to find out the time. Actually, there’s one area in North America that uses a time zone that’s not a whole number of hours offset from UTC.
What’s the weather like tomorrow?
How about my giving you New York weather for receiving San Francisco weather?
NIST still maintains their Telephone Time-of-Day Service at (303)499-7111 and their Hawaii service at (808)335-4363 . Both my computer and phone were accurate to within 1 second on their default settings.
They also play a 440Hz signal 23 times a day so it’s useful for instrument tuning but to get the best signal you need a non-VOIP POTS line.
What happened to my signature line?
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