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If you are under 40, you may have never dialled 1194 for the precise time or even heard of George, the speaking clock.

When daylight savings ended at 3am on Sunday - clocks went back an hour - the 1194 number was likely to have rung with callers checking the time.

From the time the clock was computerised in 1953 until August 1991, more than 1.4 billion calls were made to 1194.