UK Talking Clock is now Tinkerbell

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:44 pm

I kid you not. This ain't a badly timed April Fool's Day post. If you're in the UK and you ring #123 for the Talking Clock, it's now Tinkerbell from Peter Pan. What the fuck?

Post by **Skylace** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:58 pm

I

Tink! Can't get it obviously

Post by **faceless** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:24 pm

They also had a Dr Who version a while back as far as I remember -

Post by **eefanincan** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:39 am

Maybe because the new Disney Tinkerbell movie is coming out?

Post by **Skylace** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:03 am

eefanincan wrote:Maybe because the new Disney Tinkerbell movie is coming out?

Good point eefan. I didn't even think that.

Any way you can cap it for us kate and post it? I never knew they changed up talk clock.

seshme · Post by **seshme** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:54 am

It's kind of nuts phoning the speaking clock nowadays when you can get the exact time from so many places without paying 30p.

Post by **faceless** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:23 pm

Where would you get the exact time? Getting it from TV or radio is a bad idea as there's always a delay in digital broadcasts of up to 2 seconds.

seshme · Post by **seshme** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:18 pm

True on the delay, although how many people need to be accurate to 2 seconds?

I was thinking more of web based clocks.

Eg. my mobile phone and laptop update themselves automatically.

seshme · Post by **seshme** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:51 pm

I googled clock and one of them on the 1st page is

https://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

You can sit there coming to terms with how utterly insignificant you are whilst watching the stats of people dying...

Post by **faceless** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:53 pm

insignificant? I've just realised my clocks are 2 seconds out! That's important... haha

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:53 pm

Skylace wrote:Any way you can cap it for us kate and post it?

Here you go! It gets annoying after a while, haha!

[web]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... Clock.html[/web]

luke · Post by **luke** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:22 pm

that is horrible

Post by **eefanincan** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:13 pm

Cute but I can see how it might get annoying if you were hearing it all the time.

Post by **Skylace** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:10 pm

Thanks kate!

Couldn't listen to it the whole 5 minutes though!