The pips on the hour have been marking time for the best part of a century, and plenty of people still set their watch by the one o'clock signal without thinking about it. This page does something narrower and more exact: it counts down to 11:06 am on your own device's clock, right down to the second.
Coming back to this page in an hour, tomorrow or next month shows exactly the same thing: however long is genuinely left until 11:06 am next comes round. There is no session to lose and nothing to configure again, because the number is worked out fresh each time from the clock on your device.
Matching what somebody said against what somebody wrote is easier with all three versions to hand: 11:06 am for everyday reading, 11:06 for anything printed in railway style, and six minutes past eleven in the morning for whatever was actually spoken down the phone. All three describe precisely the same point in the day, and having them side by side saves a good deal of squinting at a timetable.
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 11:06 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 11:06 in the 12-hour clock?
That is 11:06 am, or six minutes past 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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