System and method for providing callers with local time and other information at called locations

A system for distributing remote location information to callers who place calls to the remote locations, said system comprising:

• a central computing system configured to receive and store information associated with locations in multiple different time zones, the information including telephone number identifiers and local times associated with the different respective telephone number identifiers;
• a plurality of communications network nodes distributed in different time zones from said central computing system and configured to process telephone calls from callers local to said communications network nodes, said communications network nodes further configured to:
• receive the information from said central computing systems;
• store the information;
• in response to receiving a call request, determine, using a portion of the called telephone number, current time local to the called telephone;
• and
• communicate the current time local to the called telephone to the caller prior to connecting the call with a communications device associated with the called telephone number.