Speaking World Clock

Check current times around the world quickly and easily with our phone service

Introduction

The Talking World Clock from World Time Engine combines the convenience of a telephone call with the current local time for any place on earth. It provides the power of millions of places provided on the World Time Engine web site and can be dialled from any country in the world.

Dialling the Talking World Clock access number is not charged at international rates but the local equivalent of £0.10 per minute. That's about €0.13, $0.20 US , $0.21 Aus per minute.

To get started, please read the following sections on how to dial our speaking clock. Further instructions for using our phone service are available at the bottom of this page.

Talking World Clock Access Number

The Talking World Clock can be dialled from any country on the following number:

+448712885800

The cost of calling the Talking World Clock worldwide is £0.10 GBP per minute (approx. €0.13, $0.20 US, $0.21 Aus).

Hotels and mobile phones may add their own surcharges to the cost of your call.
We advise you to check with your local operator before calling.

Dialling from around the world

To dial from the US you can dial: 001 44 871 288 5800
To dial from Australia you can dial: 0011 44 871 288 5800
To dial from most other countries you can dial: 00 44 871 288 5800

Instructions

The Talking World Clock service is designed to be intuitive to learn while on a call.

For completeness, step-by-step instructions for using the Talking World Clock are also provided below:


1. Dial the Talking World Clock on +44 871 288 5800.

To get started enter our access number replacing the '+' with the international dialling code for your country.

For example dialling, please see the dialling examples provided above.


2. Once connected, enter the name of the place you wish to lookup.

To enter a place you only need to tap each corresponding digit on your telephone keypad once. This means that to enter, e.g. an 's' character, you only need to tap the digit seven (7) once on your phone.

The Talking World Clock uses a predictive text resolution mechanism to identify the place that you are requesting.

Some place names include a space character, for example 'san francisco'. To enter a space you can tap digit zero (0) once on your keypad and continue entering the place name.

Once you are finished entering the place name you can press the hash (#) key to tell the Talking World Clock that you are finished. Alternatively, you can hold the line after entering your place and the service will understand that you have finished place name entry.


3. Wait while the Talking World Clock looks up your entered place.

The Talking World Clock may take a few seconds to identify the location you entered. Please hold the line until the Talking World Clock comes back to you with the time information you require.

In the case that multiple matches for your query are found, the Talking World Clock will ask you to select the appropriate place before providing the time.

Once the service is confident it has located the place you are searching for, it will tell you the current time in that location.

In addition to the local time the Talking World Clock will also provide the time zone in which your place is located and the current offset from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) / Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) for the given location.


4. Hear the time again, start a new place search or hang up.

Once the Talking World Clock has located your place and provided the current time information, you may press '1' to start a new search, hold the line to hear the time in the current location again or hang up to finish your call.


That's all there is to it! We wish you happy dialling!

Help and Support

We provide free support to all users of our Talking World Clock phone service.

If you require any assistance in using the speaking clock please contact us and we will be happy to assist you.