How to use the online alarm clock
Five in the afternoon is rush hour proper. Trains fill, motorways slow, and anyone relying on a specific service knows that missing it can cost half an hour rather than five minutes. That is why alarms at this hour tend to be about leaving on time rather than about waking up.
It is the traditional end of the office day and the moment council offices, surgeries and customer lines stop answering, which makes a five o'clock reminder useful when there is a call you have to make before somebody else's day ends. Radio 4's evening news programme starts on the hour, and for a lot of drivers it is the soundtrack to the journey home.
Late collection times at post boxes and delivery offices fall around this part of the afternoon in many places, so anything that has to be posted today needs an alarm rather than an intention. The pages here cover every minute of the five o'clock hour individually.
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