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At least in many European countries, the landline phone companies offered a short number for obtaining the time from an answering robot.

Many, many years ago, I have designed a piece of equipment that was integrated in a phone exchange and it provided vocal messages to be sent to a caller, for errors like non-existent phone number, but also for replying to the dedicated number for the time service. The messages were something like "The time at the next beep will be ... hours ... minutes ... seconds".

I have not heard about a similar service for mobile phones, because here the phone gets the time automatically and it displays it.



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