How to use the online alarm clock
Forty-five minutes is a lesson. School periods, most gym classes, driving lessons and the majority of tutoring sessions all run to it, which makes it the interval most people here recognise without being told what it is.
It is also close to the drive between Dubai and Abu Dhabi's outskirts on a clear road, and to the check-in-to-gate stretch at a busy terminal — both of which are worth timing rather than estimating, since neither is forgiving if it runs long.
In the kitchen it covers a slow bake, a rested dough, and the point at which a stew has stopped needing attention. The preset counts forty-five minutes from the moment you open it, and like every alarm on the site it needs the tab left open to sound.
Common questions
What runs for forty-five minutes?
School periods, most gym classes, driving lessons and the majority of tutoring sessions.