How to use the online alarm clock
Four in the morning is when Australia's early risers properly get going. It's a favourite hour for tradies with an early start, for shift workers rotating onto a day roster, and for surfers and swimmers wanting the water to themselves before work — a familiar routine along much of the coast.
It's also the hour chosen for dawn services on ANZAC Day, held before sunrise at war memorials in cities and small towns right across the country. Plenty of people set a 4 am alarm specifically for that one morning a year, and the minute-level pages below make it easy to match the exact start time listed for a local service.
Domestic and international flights departing at first light add another group of early alarms, along with commercial fishers and market traders whose working day is built entirely around getting to market before the sun is up.
Every minute of the 4 am hour is listed individually below. Each page is a simple, self-contained browser alarm — set the time, leave the tab open, and it sounds when the minute arrives, with the volume and screen behaviour handled by your own device.
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