Through the hottest months, work on open sites pauses for a few hours in the middle of the day, which gives the schedule a hard edge whether or not anyone is watching a clock. If 1:40 pm is that edge, this page tracks the exact time remaining, down to the second, with nothing to set up first.
The clock it uses is your own — whatever local time and zone the device is set to. In the Emirates that means Gulf Standard Time, four hours ahead of UTC, year in and year out. Travel with the same laptop and the count follows the new local time once the machine has picked it up.
Airport boards, metro timetables and prayer time tables are all printed in 24-hour form, which is why 13:40 is the version that matters when checking something against a screen or a printed sheet. This page shows 1:40 pm for everyday reading and 13:40 beside it, so the two never need converting in your head.
Common questions
What is 13:40 on a 12-hour clock?
The same instant is 1:40 pm in writing and twenty to two in the afternoon out loud. Anything from 13:00 onwards loses twelve to give the pm figure, which is the only sum involved in moving between the two.
Does the number update by itself?
Yes. It is recalculated every second from your device's clock, so nothing needs refreshing or restarting. Whatever is on screen is the current gap to 1:40 pm, not a figure worked out when the page first opened.
What happens once 1:40 pm has passed for today?
The count rolls over and carries on towards the same time tomorrow. That happens on its own at the moment the time passes — the page does not need reloading and there is nothing to reset by hand.
Which clock does the countdown use?
Your own. It reads the local time and time zone from the device in front of you, which in the Emirates means Gulf Standard Time, UTC+4. Travel and the count follows whatever the device picks up.
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