Numbers & time

Repeating numbers and clock times you keep noticing: 111, 222, 1111, 11:11. 42 signs.

• 000 angel numberThe trip meter, the timer and the scoreboard, all back at nothing
• 00:00 on the clockThe minute when the date flips and the daily counters reset
• 1010 angel numberOne and zero twice: ten in binary and a perfect score
• 10:10 on the clockThe time watch ads have used for decades, a frozen smile
• 111 angel numberA row of ones on a ticket, a receipt or a page number
• 1111 angel numberThe number that went from ominous to masterful in one century
• 11:11 on the clockThe time people stop to make a wish, a custom of unclear origin
• 1212 angel numberTwelve twice: months, hours, tribes and apostles
• 123 angel numberOne, two, three in order, on a plate, a price or a seat
• 1234 angel numberOne, two, three, four: the count a band gives before the song
• 12:12 on the clockTwelve minutes past noon, as the day tips into its second half
• 12:21 on the clockA palindrome time that reads the same from either end
• 1313 angel numberThirteen twice, a number with a bad name and kinder readings
• 13:13 on the clockA time that exists only on 24-hour clocks, just past one
• 1:01 on the clockOne minute past one, a time that comes twice a day
• 1:11 on the clockThree ones on the display, close to 11:11 but not quite
• 20:20 on the clockTwenty past eight at night, and the saying about hindsight
• 21:12 on the clockA palindrome late in the day, 12:21 turned around
• 222 angel numberTwos in a row: pairs, partners and second opinions
• 2222 angel numberFour twos, and a number early numerologists refused to reduce
• 22:22 on the clockTwenty-two past ten at night, the hour of last words
• 23:23 on the clockThe last matching time of the day, 37 minutes before midnight
• 2:22 on the clockMid-afternoon or deep night: the hour nobody plans for
• 321 angel numberThree, two, one: the numbers of a countdown, seen by chance
• 333 angel numberThree threes, a number old sayings counted as complete
• 3333 angel numberThrees in fours, and the old habit of doing things three times
• 3:33 on the clockThree threes glimpsed on a bedside screen in the dark
• 444 angel numberFours in a row: a number some cultures avoid and others build on
• 4444 angel numberFour fours: seasons, compass points and cycles
• 4:44 on the clockBefore dawn, when bakers, nurses and early flights are already up
• 555 angel numberFive, the middle of the nine digits, three times over
• 5555 angel numberFour fives, the fingers of a hand that holds or lets go
• 5:55 on the clockFive minutes before six, the last stretch before the hour
• 666 angel numberThe number of the beast, read calmly: a verse, a variant, a history
• 777 angel numberSevens in a row, the number of the day of rest
• 7777 angel numberFour sevens, and the teaching of forgiving seventy times seven
• 888 angel numberThree eights, prized in China for their sound
• 8888 angel numberFour eights, and the old idea that people of eight are misread
• 999 angel numberThe last three-digit number before everything rolls over
• 9999 angel numberThe fullest four-digit number, one step from rolling over
• Angel numbers111, 444, 1212: who coined the term and why she later renounced it
• Seeing the same number everywhereOne number on the clock, the receipt and the license plate ahead