Appointments at the surgery or the dentist are rarely worth arriving late for, and the useful figure is not the appointment itself but how long is left before you have to set off. Set that in your head as 10:49 am and this page will count down to it, exact to the second, for as long as it stays open.
The figure on this page comes from your own device's clock, checked continuously and recalculated every second against 10:49 am. There is nothing to press and nothing to set up first — the count is already running by the time the page has finished loading, and it keeps going while you are looking at it.
British speech has a well-worn habit of dropping the middle out of a time: half seven means half an hour after seven, never half an hour before it. Quarter past and quarter to work the same way. Written down, the same moment appears plainly as 10:49 am, or as 10:49 where no ambiguity is allowed.
Common questions
Which clock does it use?
Your own. It reads the local time and time zone from the device you are looking at, so the figure reflects where you actually are rather than a fixed zone written into the page.
Will this alert me when the time arrives?
No. It is a live number rather than an alarm — nothing rings, buzzes or notifies you at zero. If you need to be interrupted at 10:49 am, set an alarm as well and treat this page as the running total.
Is it affected by the clocks changing?
Only in the sense that your device is. When the change between GMT and BST happens at the end of March and October, the device adjusts and the countdown follows it without anything to do here.
What is 10:49 in the 12-hour clock?
That is 10:49 am, or eleven minutes to eleven in the morning if you are saying it aloud. From 13:00 onwards, subtracting twelve gives the pm figure — the same moment written three different ways.
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