How to use the online alarm clock
One in the morning is when the long-haul departure bank builds at Dubai International. A wall of aircraft leaves for Europe, Africa and the Americas in the small hours so that they arrive at a civilised time at the far end, which means check-in desks are full at an hour when the rest of the city is asleep and airport transfers are being booked for well before this.
Nothing on the clock itself ever happens at this hour here, which is worth noting for anyone who has moved from Europe. There is no spring forward and no fall back, so the sixty minutes listed on this page exist every single night of the year, and an alarm set inside them will never be skipped or repeated by a clock change.
Otherwise it is a working hour for a narrow set of trades: airport ground handling, hotel night reception, hospital wards between observations, and the delivery riders still moving until the kitchens close. As with every alarm here, it needs the tab open and the device awake, which at one in the morning is worth checking twice.
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