How to use the online alarm clock
Nine in the morning is the second and larger office start, and the hour at which most professional services here consider the day genuinely open. Courts and government service centres are receiving people, law firms and consultancies in the free zone districts are at their desks, and the first meetings of the day are beginning.
It is also the practical opening of the banking day for anything that needs a human being rather than an app, which matters at the end of the month when salary transfers land and queues form for the counters that handle exchange and remittance.
On a Saturday the same hour looks entirely different: it is brunch preparation, the school of swimming lessons, and the moment the beaches are still comfortable in April. Because the weekend moved to Saturday and Sunday in 2022, that shift in character now happens on the same days as it does in most of the world, which was a large part of the point. The pages below cover every minute from 9:00 am to 9:59 am.
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