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Soon Nevada will be the only state in which you can call "the phone company" for the correct time. I have a great deal of nostalgia connceted with this, childhood memories of calling "time" over and over, hearing "At the tone, the time will be... " knowing that by moving my finger I had triggered some vast machinery somewhere in the world to engage and perform a function just for me. Was this "time" service the prototype for today's web-based smorgasbord of information at your fingertips?

The brief note in customers' bills hardly does justice to the momentousness of the decision. "Service withdrawal," it blandly declares. "Effective September 2007, Time of Day information service will be discontinued."...

In Northern California, the prefix for calling time is 767, or P-O-P on a telephone keypad. For decades, locals up there have dialed POPCORN any time they have had to reset their watches or reprogram electronic gadgets after a power failure.

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