Okay, I found an online site that has a timer. Last night, I saw that the next Hitdown was 33 minutes and 20 seconds. I set the timer for 30 minutes, and it immediately started counting down. When the timer went off, I went directly to the hitdown page (which was already in another tab which I did not close from when I checked it the first time) and refreshed, and missed the time to click by seconds.

Just now, I did the same thing, only when I checked initially, it said, there was 54 minutes, 45 seconds 'til the Hitdown. I set the timer for 50 minutes. This time, I periodically refreshed the Hitdown page, checked how long before the next hitdown, and checked the timer. Each time, the timer was four minutes behind. The timer went off, I went to refresh the Hitdown page, and low and behold, I missed by a few seconds again!

It seems that when it gets closer to the time, your timer speeds up or something.

It might either be the timer or the difference it time between the reloading of the page and the setting of time. Hitdown isn't live- it only shows the time when you reloaded. It's always at 5:14 and 11:14 am/pm Creed Time.

Actually, I've noticed something similar. I'll have a tab for Hitdown and a tab for the Auction House open. I put it so that it shows the auctions with the least time remaining are on top. I will refresh both the Hitdown and Auction House within seconds of each other. Whereas the Hitdown will begin with more time by several minutes, after several refreshes of both, Hitdown will eventually have less time than the same auction in the Auction House.

Something is definitely wrong there.