How to use the online alarm clock
This preset sets an alarm for a time tomorrow rather than a length from now, which makes it the natural choice for a morning start — the 6 am school bus, a 5 am departure for the airport, or the early hour that a summer run has to happen in if it is going to happen at all.
It is also the preset where the site's central limitation matters most, and it deserves stating plainly rather than in a footnote. An alarm set for tomorrow morning has to survive the whole night in an open browser tab on a device that never sleeps. A laptop that closes, a phone that locks its screen, a muted tab or a battery that runs down will each silence it completely, and none of that can be overridden by a web page.
For a wake-up you genuinely cannot miss, use the alarm application built into your phone. This preset is for the cases where a second reminder on a machine that is already awake is useful.
Common questions
Will an alarm set for tomorrow morning actually ring?
Only if the tab stays open, the device stays awake and unmuted, and the browser is not quit overnight. For a wake-up you cannot miss, use your phone's alarm app.
Why offer it at all then?
Because it is useful as a second reminder on a machine that is already running, and because a lot of people want the countdown itself rather than only the sound.