Midweek matches under floodlights start at a time chosen for people getting there straight from work, which leaves a narrow window to eat, change and travel. This page tracks the exact countdown to 9:48 pm, whether that is kick-off itself or the point you need to be walking out of the door.
The figure on this page comes from your own device's clock, checked continuously and recalculated every second against 9:48 pm. 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.
Rail and bus timetables across Britain are printed in 24-hour time, which is why 21:48 is the version that matters when checking a departure against a board or a printed sheet. This page shows 9:48 pm for everyday reading and 21:48 alongside it, so the two can be matched without any mental arithmetic.
Common questions
What happens if 9:48 pm 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.
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 9:48 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.
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