Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 47800
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2007/8/29-31 [Politics/Domestic/California, Science/Electric] UID:47800 Activity:nil
8/29    Time stopping next month:
            \_ of day over the phone
        http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus29aug29,0,2466396,full.column?coll=la-home-center
        \_ Gee.  I was using this service to prove to our IT guy that it's
           our server whose time is wrong, not my machine, and so please stop
           sync'ing my machine's time to the server's.
           \_ http://nist.time.gov
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David Lazarus: Consumer Confidential Time of day calling it quits at AT&T August 29 2007 It's the end of time, at least as far as AT&T is concerned. The brief note in customers' bills hardly does justice to the momentousness of the decision. "Effective September 2007, Time of Day information service will be discontinued." ADVERTISEMENT What that means is that people throughout Southern California will no longer be able to call 853-1212 to hear a woman's recorded voice state that "at the tone, Pacific Daylight Time will be . " with the recording automatically updating at 10-second intervals. "In today's world, there are just too many other ways to get this information. Indeed, time already has stopped in 48 other states, he said. In Northern California, the prefix for calling time is 767, or P-O-P on a telephone keypad. For decades, locals up there have dialed POPCORN any time they have had to reset their watches or reprogram electronic gadgets after a power failure. "In California, our equipment has gotten old," Britton said. Britton said Nevada service would live on borrowed time for an unspecified period, until the equipment in that state similarly starts breaking down. One upside: AT&T says doing away with time would enable the creation of about 300,000 new phone numbers in California beginning with the 853 or 767 prefixes. Yet for many Californians, the looming demise of the "time lady," as she's come to be known, marks the end of a more genteelera, when we all had time to share. "It was always there," said Orlo Brown, 70, who for many years kept Pacific Bell's (and subsequently SBC's) time machines running in a downtown Los Angeles office building. Richard Frenkiel was assigned to work on the time machines when he joined Bell Labs in the early 1960s. He described the devices as large drums about 2 feet in diameter, with as many as 100 album-like audio tracks on the exterior. 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