Meeting somebody off a late arrival means leaving well before the aircraft is down, and the terminal is further out than it looks on a map. This page counts down to 11:16 pm exactly, whether 11:16 pm is the landing time itself or the moment you need to be pulling out onto the road.
Accuracy comes from the device rather than from the page, so a machine whose clock has drifted will produce a countdown that drifts with it. Most phones and laptops sync automatically over the network and stay within a second, but it is worth a glance if the figure ever looks wrong.
India runs half an hour off the round numbers, thirty minutes ahead of the Emirates, which catches out anyone arranging a call by counting whole hours. Since the clocks here never shift, the offset to Mumbai is fixed all year — it is the European and American ones that move underneath you.
Common questions
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.
Will it alert me when 11:16 pm arrives?
No. This is a live figure rather than an alarm — nothing sounds, vibrates or notifies at zero. If you need interrupting at 11:16 pm, set an alarm alongside it and use this page as the running total.
Do the clocks change here?
No. The UAE has no daylight saving at all, so the offset stays at UTC+4 in every month. When the gap to Europe or North America shifts, it is their clocks that moved, not yours.
What is 23:16 on a 12-hour clock?
The same instant is 11:16 pm in writing and sixteen minutes past eleven at night 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.
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