In Bell Systems Technical Journal, v9:i1 January 1930, p78: Time Service
Arrangements have been made in many parts of the country to furnish subscribers who desire it, accurate information as to the time of day. A subscriber wishing the information asks for or dials a particular number assigned for this purpose and is connected either to an operator who advises him individually as to the time or is switched across a bus-bar to which is connected the amplified speech of an operator repeating at fifteen second intervals the exact time of day. In the present development of this service it is the practice to localize in one place the time service for an entire exchange area. http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol09-1930/bstj-vol09-issue01.html -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.