Courts and pitches are booked by the hour and the hour begins whether or not you have arrived, with the drive across town being the part that gets underestimated. This page counts down to 9:28 pm exactly, so the decision about when to leave rests on a number rather than on optimism about the traffic.
The clock it uses is your own — whatever local time and zone the device is set to. In the Emirates that means Gulf Standard Time, four hours ahead of UTC, year in and year out. Travel with the same laptop and the count follows the new local time once the machine has picked it up.
The Emirates keep Gulf Standard Time, UTC+4, and never move the clocks. Everything about time here follows from that: 9:28 pm in January is the same 9:28 pm in July, and the gap to London or Berlin changes twice a year because of what they do, not because of anything happening at this end.
Common questions
Do the clocks change here?
No. The UAE has no daylight saving at all, so the offset stays at UTC+4 in every month. When the gap to Europe or North America shifts, it is their clocks that moved, not yours.
What is 21:28 on a 12-hour clock?
The same instant is 9:28 pm in writing and twenty-eight minutes past nine at night out loud. Anything from 13:00 onwards loses twelve to give the pm figure, which is the only sum involved in moving between the two.
Does the number update by itself?
Yes. It is recalculated every second from your device's clock, so nothing needs refreshing or restarting. Whatever is on screen is the current gap to 9:28 pm, not a figure worked out when the page first opened.
What happens once 9:28 pm has passed for today?
The count rolls over and carries on towards the same time tomorrow. That happens on its own at the moment the time passes — the page does not need reloading and there is nothing to reset by hand.
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