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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I hated that as a kid.

Also, my local pool has 3 clocks. The spinny cross one, actual time with seconds, and another one that counts down from 60 minutes, but it’s 5 mins off from the actual time with seconds, and the + spinny clock is also off between the two of them. Drives me insane.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In Denmark we had a service called "Miss Time" (Frøken Klokken) where you could dial 155 and get the time. You could just about get the current time in a phone booth without needing to pay, which I used pretty regularly during my paper route. The service ran between 1939 and 2021, but one can still experience it digitally here which is pretty cool: https://froekenklokken.enigma.dk/

[–] CaptDust 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Phone companies used to employ somebody to sit and answer those calls!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

And they probably made enough to support a family of 4 with a house.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

F for the now-unemployed time callers 😞