The intro to the song "4-2-0" by Kottonmouth Kings features a sample taken from the speaking clock, announcing that the time is 4:20.
The first song on the album Albedo 0.39 by Vangelis, Pulstar, ends with the voice of the speaking clock, announcing that the time is 10:03 and 40 seconds.
At the end of the song "Clock" by Coal Chamber, the clock is quoted for 2:37:00 PDT.
The industrial music band Battery 9 has featured the Afrikaans version of the speaking clock's Wanneer u die sein hoor..
("when you hear the signal...") in a song called Tempo Hewig.
The track "Time Zones" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark consists of speaking clocks in English, French, German and Japanese synchronised so that the number of announcements increases as the track progresses and the time signals coincide.
In the Old 97's song "Big Brown Eyes", Rhett Miller sings that he is "calling time-and-temperature, just for some company".
Scott Walker song "Time Operator" uses the sound of the British Telecom speaking clock
Anticon Artist Sole (artist) (Tim Holland) in the song T.I.M
says "My name is Tim I'm a speaking clock, 1 2 3 is the code..."
Speaking clock mostly appears in remixed songs.
The opening sequence of Real Time with Bill Maher begins with a spoken phrase from the (now defunct) Los Angeles speaking clock, featuring an uncredited Joanne Daniels as the time lady saying "Good Afternoon."
On the pilot for the Fox television series 24, George Mason dialed the number for the speaking clock (presumably 853-1212, as the show takes place in Southern California) instead of placing a call to another government official, not knowing Jack Bauer was listening in to his "phone call" and knew he was deceiving him.
At the end of the Only Fools and Horses episode "The Second Time Around", the Trotters discover a jilted fiancée has left the phone connected to an American speaking clock for a week.
In the film Bringing Up Baby, Susan Vance interrupts David Huxley's phone call to his fiancee by pretending to be a speaking clock, thus forcing him to end the call.
Literature and radio plays
The radio drama MEridian 7-1212 by Irving Reis, produced by the Columbia Workshop August 24, 1939, (available from the Internet Archive here), dealt with the New York Telephone time service at a time when the announcements were still read live.
In Douglas Adams's So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish, character Ford Prefect leaves a ship hooked up to the speaking clock
In the BBC Radio 4 adaptation, the voice of the clock is that of the aforementioned Brian Cobby.
Tom Stoppard wrote a radio play, If You're Glad I'll Be Frank, where a bus driver thought his wife was the speaking clock