The called didn't adjust a clock; the caller did. Your clock was flashing 12:00AM, so you called the number to find out what time it really was, and re-set your clock to what the recording told you.
As a kid I would have had a total blast with that. The wrong numbers calling our house asking for the time and weatherWhen I was a kid there was a local number to call for time and temperature (of course waaaay back before the internet). The number was the exact digits of our home phone only with the last two transposed. We often got dozens of calls a day and when the weather was bad or just after a DST shift it could be hundreds.
I've never heard of POP-CORN. Growing up in Louisiana, the time/temp service was always provided by a local bank as a form of advertising. They always had a separate number for it, but it changed from town to town. We called it all the time; particularly after a storm outage, when we wanted to synch our clocks back again.
It makes a fair amount of sense for banks to have done it, seeing how many banks still have time/temp marquees on their buildings. (I still pass two of those on my daily commute.)
PS: Out of curiosity, I decided to see if my city still had a time/temp line, and it does. Just called it to verify. (These days it is sponsored by a law firm.) I also found this 4 yr old newspaper article about how the number of calls to it was declining: http://newwentzvillian.blogspot.com/2014/07/i-phones-are-killing-st-louis-time-and.html
When I was a kid there was a local number to call for time and temperature (of course waaaay back before the internet). The number was the exact digits of our home phone only with the last two transposed. We often got dozens of calls a day and when the weather was bad or just after a DST shift it could be hundreds.
I wonder if this lady wouldn't be a prime candidate for an Amazon Alexa! It could tell her the time and more!I never have. I find it to be the most bizarre thing. DH's grandmother (91) calls a local number about 10x a day to hear what time it is. I am not sure why..... She has plenty of clocks around her. She also lives in assisted living and there are so many people around, at least 3x a day to eat meals together. So she's not doing it to hear someone on the phone. And, being retired at an assisted living place that is incharge of all the times she does stuff she really doesn't have a reason to know what time it ever is. Just baffles me. I guess if she enjoys it, doesn't bother my life. I just never knew something like that existed today.
I wonder if this lady wouldn't be a prime candidate for an Amazon Alexa! It could tell her the time and more!
I remember that now! But I can't remember what the number was, people are saying its popcorn but I thought I remember dialing *-something, like *69 but a different number. That's so funny that it still exists