Speaking clock
 

My kids asked me for the time this morning ( I was in a beautiful slumber!) and my watch loses a lot of time these days.

Does 'Straya have a speaking clock?

Beep...beep....BEEP!!!

(That should keep us happy for a while. I'm rather hoping Australia doesn't so that we can pour scorn and vitriol.:p)

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The one in the Uk was quite incredible. Always right. My parents used it a lot.

They changed the voice a few years back or summat'.

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According to Wikipedia Australia does have one. I dialled it from Brisbane and it said "The time is 1972" :sneaky:

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I wonder if Aus has a shipping forecast. When I catch that on the beeb for some stupid reason I listen to it. I find it weirdly compelling.

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:rofl:

I knew there was a riposte somewhere....we have a winner!

And yes, there is one, as it turns out. Here in Melbourne, the time is indeed 2012....

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all the veerings and backings....
and place names...

There was a book about that..

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The Speaking Clock bloke I heard just now sounded suspiciously British. He did have Melbourne time right though...

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I'm sorry I just caused you to shell out the coin for the phone...oh - and it doesn't surprise me - I meet loads of Australians who could pass for Brits...based on their accents.

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Whats the betting if I phoned the speaking clock from herE in WA it'd give me the time on the East Coast????:blink:

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No it would probably be right and give 1954 for Perth.

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I'd like one that said "It's wine o'clock!" whenever you dialled.

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That is so British. As a kid I would listen in wonder at gale warnings.

its here online.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qfvv

Sadly those deep and slow BBC RP pronunciations seem to have gone.

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Another quirky thing I remember so clearly.... Was all those searching for people things they did. "Looking for the son of so and so... because your father is Dangerously Ill"... Wonder when that stopped.

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I think thosed coded radio messages broadcast by the BBC ceased in 1945.....

There will be a fullmoon in liverpool tonight... Mrs Jones handkerchiefs wre white, but now they are blue, looking for the son of Mr X your father is dangerously ill....

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I remember a few from when I was a kid in the 70s; when I was in bed ill I would listen to the World Service a lot overnight, you used to hear announcements on there for stuff like "John, somewhere in India, please call home urgently".