Tuesday is the day the working week here settles. The Monday backlog has been dealt with, the week's meetings have been fixed, and in most offices it is the first day on which sustained work actually happens rather than being scheduled.
It is a popular day for anything that needs a full attendance: internal reviews, training sessions, and appointments at government service centres, which are less crowded than they are at either end of the week. Clinics and specialist practices tend to have more availability than on a Monday for the same reason.
For anyone working across time zones, Tuesday is the first day of the week on which the whole chain is properly aligned — the Gulf, Europe and the American east coast all in their normal rhythm at the same time, without a weekend on either side of the conversation. Anyone dealing with Saudi Arabia, Qatar or Kuwait works with an hour's difference the other way, which is small enough to ignore and large enough to catch out a nine o'clock call.
In schools it is often the heaviest day of the timetable, with the assessments and the double periods placed where attendance is most dependable, and after-school activities running at full strength.
The countdown points at the next Tuesday and rolls over to the following one as soon as it passes.
Common questions
Why is Tuesday a good day for appointments?
Government service centres and clinics tend to be less crowded than at either end of the week, once the Monday backlog has cleared.
How far ahead is Saudi Arabia?
An hour behind, at UTC+3, along with Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait. Oman shares the same hour as the Emirates.
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