Trains home fill up in a fairly predictable order, and being on the platform a few minutes earlier changes the journey considerably. This page tracks the exact time left until 5:05 pm, whether that is the train itself, the walk to the station, or the point work has to stop for either to happen.
There is one number to read and nothing to choose: hours, minutes and seconds counting down together towards 5:05 pm. No start button, no options, no settings page to get right beforehand — just the current gap to that time, updating on its own for as long as you need it.
Plenty of phones, laptops and dashboards default to a 24-hour display regardless of how people around here actually talk, so 17:05 may well be the figure staring back at you even though 5:05 pm is how the same moment would be said aloud. Neither is more correct than the other.
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 5:05 pm, 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 17:05 in the 12-hour clock?
That is 5:05 pm, or five past five in the evening 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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