Why is every snooze alarm 9 minutes? I searched the googles and couldn't find a definite answer.

The best I could find was that 9 is the most amount of time old gear clocks could count to without having to count double digits (9:45 to 9:54 is just 5 to 4 instead of 45 to 55, 1 gear vs 2 or more). Does this problem translate to digital clocks?

12/4/2012 12:03:19 AM

Never had a 9 minute snooze.

Never.

Always 5 or 10.

12/4/2012 12:04:14 AM

I always just assumed that it's because it'll take you a few seconds to hit snooze. So say your alarm is for 9 am, it takes you a bit to hit snooze, so the next alarm is 9:10. That way you have even numbers to work with.

12/4/2012 12:04:51 AM

I don't use the snooze

12/4/2012 12:05:02 AM

My digital clock snooze is in multiples of 10 minutes. Some companies might keep the 9 minute snooze as some sort of clock tradition

12/4/2012 12:05:05 AM

I've never had a snooze other than 9. Everything from old wind up clocks to smart phones.

Anyone got a snooze they can set to their own time, not just intervals of 5?

12/4/2012 12:06:52 AM

the last alarm clock i used had an 8 minute snooze

12/4/2012 12:14:23 AM

iPhone is 9 minutes and I hit snooze immediately to shut that fucker up

12/4/2012 12:42:02 AM

Maybe with 9 minute intervals it's harder to confuse the time while half awake if you hit snooze multiple times.

12/4/2012 12:54:56 AM

1. 12:00
2. 12:01
3. 12:02
4. 12:03
5. 12:04
6. 12:05
7. 12:06
8. 12:07
9. 12:08
10. 12:09


According to google:

By setting the snooze time to 9 minutes, modern digital alarm clocks only needs to watch the last digit of the time. So, if you hit snooze at 6:45, the alarm goes off again when the last digit hits 4 - at 7:54. They couldn't make the snooze period 10 minutes, or the alarm would go off right away - or the clock would take more circuitry.

12/4/2012 1:54:10 AM

Man I love engineers

Someone told the guy to save money on this analog circuit, so he cut it to nine minutes and started a rumor about tradition. I hope that guy got a raise

12/4/2012 2:45:57 AM

6:27am, then I hit snooze 2-3 times. I've been known to snooze for over an hour

12/4/2012 3:12:58 AM

probably because you stay up past 3am.

12/4/2012 5:52:28 AM

Lol that I blame on my cat sticking his wet nose and whiskers in my face randomly in the middle of the night

12/4/2012 7:15:54 AM

I don't snooze. I use multiple alarms. My first goes off at 5:00, and the next goes off at 5:30 if I don't feel like getting up then.

12/4/2012 7:20:51 AM

I, too, removed the snooze from my iphone alarm. If I don't get up right away at 4:30am, it will throw my entire morning off kilter.

12/4/2012 7:34:11 AM

I've never used the snooze...I'm pretty much awake once the radio alarm goes off. I'd rather have more uninterrupted sleep than have to set my alarm earlier to compensate for my snoozes

12/4/2012 7:45:16 AM

Don't thing I've ever had a snooze that was 9 minutes. 5 or 10.

12/4/2012 8:10:55 AM

9 minute snooze here. you people with 5 minute snooze have terrible clocks

12/4/2012 8:22:10 AM

Mine is 7 minutes

12/4/2012 8:54:14 AM

12/4/2012 8:57:42 AM

9 minute snooze here too with the iphone! Kind of annoying, imo- I want my full 10 minutes

I wish there was a way to adjust in the settings (if there is someone please let me know)...at least with my old droid I could choose the intervals

12/4/2012 10:08:49 AM

it's my morning sex shot clock

12/4/2012 10:10:44 AM

snooze schedule =

7:00->7:10
7:10->7:20
7:20->7:30
7:30->7:40
7:40->7:50
7:50->8:00
get out of bed.

12/4/2012 10:34:08 AM

haha that's what I do ^

but mine is 6:15 to 7:15

12/4/2012 10:35:19 AM

my snooze is 7 minutes, which i have always found to be odd. it's a sony alarm clock from like 1996 or something. it will never die.

12/4/2012 10:37:54 AM

I can set mine to any minute between 1 and 30. Poor people clocks, ITT.

12/4/2012 12:50:47 PM

Haha I thought about 6 minute abs as well.

12/4/2012 1:06:55 PM

My snooze on my android phone can be adjusted in 5 minute intervals (5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes...etc).

I rarely use it though because I set my alarm to pretty much the latest possible time I can wake up and still not be late. I'd rather have uninterrupted sleep than waking up and snoozing the alarm multiple times. If it's something super important to wake up for or I have to get up especially early, I'll set my clock radio alarm and my phone just in case.

12/4/2012 2:54:04 PM

Quote :

"snooze schedule = 7:00->7:10 7:10->7:20 7:20->7:30 7:30->7:40 7:40->7:50 7:50->8:00 get out of bed."

jesus. that sounds miserable. i'd much rather just have the last hour of my sleep be uninterrupted and peaceful.

12/4/2012 3:03:23 PM

Fuck snooze. My phone does a pre-alarm soft tone and it usually gets me up 3min before my alarm.

12/4/2012 3:05:15 PM

I get up around 6:20 to get ready for work...but i set the alarm to that time every day. for one, it helps in case my alarm fails one day i need to get up. secondly, on days i don't have to work, it feels great to get to turn it off and just sleep through it.

12/4/2012 3:24:10 PM

so your sleeping ass does not keep seeing the zeroes and think you are not oversleeping

12/4/2012 4:51:00 PM