twelve past six
It is generally agreed that , apart from the difference of clocks , there may have been local causes which influenced the action of the poison . Certainly , in each separate district the resurrection was practically simultaneous . There are numerous witnesses that Big Ben pointed to ten minutes past six at the moment . The Astronomer Royal has fixed the Greenwich time at twelve past six . On the other hand , Laird Johnson , a very capable East Anglia observer , has recorded six-twenty as the hour . In the Hebrides it was as late as seven . In our own case there can be no doubt whatever , for I was seated in Challenger 's study with his carefully tested chronometer in front of me at the moment .