How to use the online alarm clock
Friday is the finish line of the standard British week, and an alarm set for it is usually about starting the day rather than ending it — an earlier train, a deadline that has to clear before the weekend, or a journey that begins the moment work stops.
The day has its own habits: fish and chips, an early finish in workplaces that allow it, the pub after work, and the motorway network filling from mid-afternoon as everyone travels at once. Schools break up for half term and holidays on a Friday, which loads the date further at certain points in the year.
The preset locates the next Friday and sets the alarm for the same clock time you set it at, whether that is a wake-up or a reminder later in the day.
Common questions
Does the countdown to Friday account for bank holidays?
No — it simply targets the next calendar Friday, whether or not it happens to be a holiday.