How to use the online alarm clock
Two in the morning is when the roads get worked on. Lane closures and resurfacing on Sheikh Zayed Road and the interchanges around it are scheduled deep into the night precisely because the traffic that makes them impossible by day has finally thinned, and crews take the window between about eleven at night and five in the morning.
In summer the same logic drives construction. Concrete is poured overnight when the air has dropped far enough for it to cure properly, so sites that look abandoned at two in the afternoon are lit up and busy at two in the morning.
For everyone else this is the deepest part of the night. Hotel night audits are run around now, cargo is being sorted at the freight terminals, and anyone awake by choice is usually watching sport from a distant time zone. The minute pages under this hour are also used for medication timed at strict intervals — for which a dedicated phone alarm is the safer instrument, because a browser tab on a sleeping laptop makes no sound at all.
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