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Comment by mrheosuper | Hacker News Reader

why do you have to go to calendar to set alarm ?

The alarm and the calendar can both alert you on a specific date and time. But like a bedside alarm clock, the iOS alarm is limited to a time in the next 24 hours.

On Android, why would you not use the calendar when you want to be alerted days from now?

Wat? Because a century old device can only set a repeating alarm, the 2025 $1k smartphone should, too?! I set so many one of alarms on my android weekly, I would be infuriated if I had to use the calendar for that.

You can set as many non-repeating alarms as you like, as long as they're within the next 24 hours.

What kind of event are you creating an alarm for that's more than a day away? On Friday, do you create your alarm to wake up on Monday? Does Android have a calendar-like view of your upcoming alarms?

(Sorry for the barrage of questions, but this is interesting to me.)

>You can set as many non-repeating alarms as you like, as long as they're within the next 24 hours.

Any color as long as it's black, eh?

I frequently use one-time alarms for early morning travel a few days away. What makes them great is that the alarms in general are much more robust in their requirements to turn them off; I can accidentally dismiss a calendar alert, but I have a much harder time accidentally deactivating the clock alarm in a sleep induced stupor at odd hours.

More importantly, alarms don't get silenced by my nightly do not disturb schedule.

Because on my Android phone, the alarm accepts a date and rings only on that date

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