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 6:48 am and this page will count down to it, exact to the second, for as long as it stays open.
When the clock reaches 6:48 am, the count does not sit at zero. It rolls straight over and begins again towards the same time tomorrow, on its own, without a refresh or a reset. That makes this a page worth keeping in a bookmarks bar rather than one you look at once and forget.
Rail and bus timetables across Britain are printed in 24-hour time, which is why 06:48 is the version that matters when checking a departure against a board or a printed sheet. This page shows 6:48 am for everyday reading and 06:48 alongside it, so the two can be matched without any mental arithmetic.
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 6:48 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 06:48 in the 12-hour clock?
That is 6:48 am, or twelve minutes to seven 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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