What time is it? The phone company won’t tell you anymore. AT&T; is discontinuing its time service as the equipment and usage runs down. The service has already been halted in every state except California and Nevada. Known as “POPCORN” in the areas where dialing that word would get you a recorded voice of the time, the service shuts off on September 19 in California, and when the Nevada equipment is decommissioned, it’ll be entirely gone. Joanne Daniels, who provided the voice for all those hours, minutes, and seconds for Californians, is enjoying a final 15 minutes of fame as reporters get her take on the disappearing service. The equipment, aptly called the “time machine,” consists of “large drums about 2 feet in diameter, with as many as 100 album-like audio tracks on the exterior. Whenever someone called time, the drums would start turning and a message would begin, with different tracks mixed together on the fly.” (thanks Seth)