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[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 70 points 2 months ago

It should display the time too, because people might not know. And every business on the avenue will have a sign showing the same information. What a weird fad in hindsight.

[-] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 41 points 2 months ago

I loved how when I was a kid, the clocks weren't in sync. They were up to 5 minutes off between them.

[-] kooks_only@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago

I hated that as a kid.

Also, my local pool has 3 clocks. The spinny cross one, actual time with seconds, and another one that counts down from 60 minutes, but it’s 5 mins off from the actual time with seconds, and the + spinny clock is also off between the two of them. Drives me insane.

[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 14 points 2 months ago

In Denmark we had a service called "Miss Time" (Frøken Klokken) where you could dial 155 and get the time. You could just about get the current time in a phone booth without needing to pay, which I used pretty regularly during my paper route. The service ran between 1939 and 2021, but one can still experience it digitally here which is pretty cool: https://froekenklokken.enigma.dk/

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Phone companies used to employ somebody to sit and answer those calls!

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago

And they probably made enough to support a family of 4 with a house.

[-] lemmyman@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

F for the now-unemployed time callers 😞

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

There was a time when the Internet didn't exist and not everyone wore a wristwatch.

Having time on every other corner was useful for your bus stop.

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

You either drove by a bank or called the time and temp number.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Yes, but that was like a quarter century ago

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

And with how frequently car stereos were broken lol

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

The boomers love knowing about the weather

[-] ray@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

And yet they hate knowing about the climate

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

Are you a former bank employee that was fired?

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Temperature on the side of any building is such a flex

Never see that in the UK because we just need to always assume it'll rain and maybe go a little over room temperature if we're lucky

Except that one week a year where the immense cost of adding AC to our Victorian houses becomes worryingly appealing

[-] Zanz@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

You guys have clock towers with tiny clocks on the top instead.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well how else will we know when it's time for breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, supper or midnight snack time?

[-] Monzcarro@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

I'm in the UK and my local pharmacy has one! It's fun to guess what it will be as I'm going past.

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

I've seen it a few times in the UK, there's an ex CPC building in Preston that shows the temperature.

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

My country has largely shut down physical bank locations and has gone all in on online banking.

I guess the one silver lining is that they are always open.

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

In my country they close at 16:00 yay...

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago

Woah 10.5 hours later than ours, now that's convenient!

[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

A thermometer, in direct sunlight all day.

this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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