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"
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