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8:00:00 am

alarm clock begins beeping

8:00:15

I actually begin waking up

8:00:45

I manage to get up and silence the dumb machine

8:10:00

alarm wakes me up again after initial snooze, ten minutes after I intended to be awake

If the snooze went in ten minute increments, and a person was fond of snoozing, after a handful of snoozes the time delay between alarm sounding and snoozing would add up and throw off the mental calculation.

"I've hit the snooze five times, it must be 8:50, oh shit it's actually 8:55, FML," versus, "I've hit the snooze five times, it must be 8:50, oh hey it's actually only 8:47."

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That's a good theory.

I have multiple alarms on my phone, as sometimes I'll turn off an alarm completely in my sleep. I put these alarms teen minutes apart, call it OCD. Snooze time of nine minutes makessense a lot of sense fire my part.

I do this. I set one alarm for an hour before I'm meant to be up (I usually don't remember this), one half an hour before, one on the actual time and then in smaller and smaller increments until I'm so annoyed with turning it off that I just get up.

For me this looks like this: "I've hit the snooze five times, it must be 8:50, oh hey it's actually only 8:47. I SHALL SNOOZE ONE MORE TIME!"

You can count to five while still snoozing? I know I couldn't...

You're right, it's more like "ah, it's not 8:50 yet, I can snooze..."

My alarm does 10 minutes regardless of how long I take to wake up. In other words, if I set the alarm at 8:00am, wake up and hit snooze at 8:03am, the alarm will still go off again at 8:10am, not 8:12am. For a digital alarm clock, it seems pretty trivial to just add 10 minutes to the current alarm time.

That's been my theory, as well.

This is also my pet theory too. You can mentally count and err on the safe side.

The app on my phone makes me add two two digit numbers together before it switches off. It gives me just enough time to engage my brain to calculate how many more snoozes I can get away with.

For me, iOS 7 requires just that little bit more mental effort to grok the interface that my brain engages enough to calculate.

Thanks Ive!

That's great but why can't we change the snooze interval? It's completely ridiculous to have it be non-configurable.

Multiplication tables are too deeply ingrained in my brain for that to work on me.

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