How to use the online alarm clock
Three in the morning belongs to the fish trade. The Waterfront Market in Deira takes its landings and its auctions in the small hours so that the catch reaches restaurant kitchens and household tables the same morning, and the buyers who need to be on the floor set their alarms for this hour and no other.
The wholesale vegetable market keeps the same rhythm, and so do the bakeries producing the day's khubz and the flatbreads that cafeterias will be serving from six. None of it is visible from a residential tower, but the whole food supply of the city has already been moving for an hour by the time this page's alarms go off.
It is also an hour with a hard-earned reputation as the low point of the night: alertness and body temperature both bottom out around now, which is why night-shift safety checks are so often scheduled here rather than left to judgement. Every minute from 3:00 am to 3:59 am has its own page, none of which needs an account or an install.
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