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Long before smartphones made finding out the time or temperature as easy as glancing at your screen, you could pick up your landline and call a time and weather line. There were numbers all...
Decades ago, when someone wondered what the weather was out, or if they needed to know the time, they could pick up their landline and call Time and Temp. Cities across the country had their own, most reliably ending with 1010 or 1212.
Simply dial a phone number for a city of your choice, and Free Weather Call will immediately provide the weather for that area. Detailed local weather information, such as temperature, precipitation, wind details, and barometric pressure.
The U.S. Naval Observatory still sponsors a telephone number that will tell you the time and temperature when you call. Dial 202-762-1401 and you will get a recording of the time from the...
Time and temperature phone lines receive more than a million calls each month from across the U.S. That includes thousands of calls to three recently restored lines in Tampa Bay. With...
Turns out, every year millions of people still call the number to get the time. That's right: Even though 77 percent of all Americans now own a smartphone, most of which literally display the time around the clock, more than 3 million people called the USNO number in 2015 to obtain the correct time.
Is there still a time and temperature phone number? The message at 817-844-6611, an advertising service sponsored by a local bank since 1951, announces not only the time and temperature but also a Dec. 31 deadline for ending the service unless a new sponsor signs up. Our phones now tell us the time before we ever dial.