Olena Ruban via Getty Images Orange’s speaking clock, accessible at 3699, will disappear on July 1. TIME – “At the fourth clock, it will be exactly 1:17 pm”. In a few weeks, we will no longer be able to hear this mythical phrase uttered by 3699 on the telephone. Orange announced on Tuesday May 3 that its speaking clock service would disappear on July 1. This telephone service, accessible for 1.50 euros plus the cost of a local call, was the first automated system of its kind in the world. “It was part of the French industrial heritage,” hailed the historic telephone operation in France in a statement. But for several years, the number of calls has only decreased, leading to the inevitable end of the service. “The digitization of equipment, the multiplication of sources that can give the time, mobiles, computers, tablets, inevitably contribute to this erosion”, points out Orange. It was in 1933 that the speaking clock was created by Ernest Esclangon, astronomer and director of the Paris Observatory. In 1991, Orange joined forces with the Paris Observatory to develop a dedicated infrastructure that broadcasts the time in France. The current model is the fourth generation of this clock which uses the “coordinated universal time” of the Paris Observatory. This is generated from a set of atomic clocks with surgical precision: around 10 milliseconds. See also on The HuffPost: How to properly observe a shower of shooting stars?
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