How to use the online alarm clock
Nine in the evening is bedtime for older children on a school night, and the hour a great many households treat as the boundary between the day and whatever is left of it. On a school week that runs from Monday morning it is enforced more strictly than the same hour was under the old Sunday-to-Thursday week, simply because the weekend now falls where the rest of the world puts it.
During Ramadan the hour looks completely different. The evening prayers that follow iftar run late into the night, the shops and cafés are busier at nine than at any daylight hour, and family visiting starts rather than finishes around now.
For everyone else it is often a wind-down prompt — screens down, an honest attempt at a consistent bedtime, and an alarm set as the thing that makes it happen rather than a decision made in the moment. The minute pages below cover the hour in full and, like everything on the site, need the tab left open to sound.
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