The shipping forecast at twenty past five is one of the few fixed points anyone awake at this hour can set their watch by, and it has been read at more or less the same times for decades. If 2:48 am matters to you in the same way, this page tracks the exact wait until it comes round again.
Coming back to this page in an hour, tomorrow or next month shows exactly the same thing: however long is genuinely left until 2:48 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.
Between the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October the country runs on BST rather than GMT, which is why timetables and confirmations sometimes carry the label as well as the number. This page counts down to 2:48 am using whatever your device is currently set to, so the switch is handled for you.
Common questions
What is 02:48 in the 12-hour clock?
That is 2:48 am, or twelve minutes to three at night if you are saying it aloud. From 13:00 onwards, subtracting twelve gives the pm figure — the same moment written three different ways.
Does the number update by itself?
Yes. It recalculates every second from your device's clock, so there is nothing to refresh or restart. Whatever is on screen is the current gap to the target time, not a figure worked out when the page first loaded.
What happens if 2:48 am has already gone for today?
The count simply carries on towards the next occurrence, which is tomorrow. That rollover happens on its own — the page does not need reloading and there is nothing to reset by hand.
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.
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