About us

dubai-ti.me is a set of small time tools that run in a web browser: alarm clocks for every minute of the day, countdown timers, a stopwatch, live countdowns, date calculators, a calendar and the UAE public holiday pages. There is nothing to download and nothing to install. Everything happens on the page in front of you.

No accounts, and no reason for them

You are never asked to register, sign in, or hand over an email address. That is not a feature waiting to be built — it is the design. A timer does not need to know who you are before it can count to twelve minutes, and a site that collects nothing cannot lose anything.

Because the tools run in your browser they read the clock on your own device rather than one on a server, which is why the time shown always agrees with your phone. It also produces the one limitation worth being blunt about: the tab has to stay open. Close it, quit the browser, or let the machine sleep, and the alarm will not sound. Silent mode, do not disturb and a muted tab stop the sound just as effectively. These are the boundaries browsers place around web pages rather than defects in the tools, and anything you genuinely cannot afford to miss should be set on a proper alarm application instead.

Written for the Emirates

The calendar and holiday pages are built for the UAE specifically, which matters more than it sounds. Gulf Standard Time is fixed at UTC+4 with no summer time, the working week runs Monday to Friday with a short Friday, and most of the public holiday list follows the Hijri lunar calendar and therefore moves each year. A generic international tool gets all three of those wrong.

The site is run by a single operator rather than a company, and it grows a tool at a time as gaps become obvious. If something is missing or looks wrong, the contact page explains how to say so.