[time-nuts] A timely, but _very_ boring job...

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Jan 12 17:18:12 UTC 2013


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


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