Arg, why 9 minutes?

know what he means. would personally prefer 15mins.

I use snooze as a "i'll have a little nap then get up" button, and tbh 9 mins isnt enough, keeps me in a state of half sleep where i may as well get up (which i suppose is the point, but i'm crap in the mornings :D ) yet keep stabbing at the snooze.
 
I don't even wake for my alarm anymore... snooze or not. Damn XDA! My old phones used to ring constantly until you beat the thing.

My ex had an amazing habbit of hitting snooze ad infinitum and staying in bed for hours...
 
platypus said:
Both of my girlfriends SE phones are 9 minutes, her alarm clock is 9 minutes, my alarm clock is 9 minutes..

Gah!
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my SE is 9 mins too


/presses snooze instead of off by mistake

"BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP"

"SMASH!"

:(
 
mine had best wake up call after some dodgy extension wire addon i did myself it exploded at side of my head not good at 4 in morning never had on since.
 
hardc0re_tid said:
if i had an alarm clock like that id never get up, i only get up when the time ends in a 5 or a 0, getting up at at 7:23 - yea right, 7:25 is where its at
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Haha, excellent - I'm the same :D

My Nokia has 10 mins (3510i - oldskool i know =p)
 
$loth said:
Me too, or i'm already up before.
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A more accurate description of what I do would be to wake up usually 2 minutes before the alarm goes off (turns out my internal body clock is just as accurate unfortuantely. Why it cant let me sleep for 2 more minutes is anybodys guess) and then get out of bed to turn the alarm off before it sounds (I hate the sound and leave the clock across the room in order to force me to get up).
 
Scary - saw the answer to this very question just an hour or so ago:

taken from: www.ididnotknowthatyesterday.com

Why is the snooze function on alarm clocks always set to nine-minute intervals?

Before researching the answer, I would have thought it's because nine
minutes is the approximate length of time it takes to fall back asleep
before being roused by the piercing beep of the infernal alarm clock.

But as it turns out, it's really all a matter of mechanics. Back in
1956 when the snooze button was first introduced, alarm clocks had
standardized gears. The snooze gear had to mesh with the teeth of the
other gears. Due to the configuration of the gears, a nice, round
10-minute snooze cycle was out of the question, so the engineers had
to choose between nine minutes or 10-plus minutes. As we all know,
punctuality is a virtue, so the engineers went with nine minutes.

Various attempts have been made to change the nine-minute snooze cycle
-- manufacturers have tried five, seven, and ten minutes, but a
nine-minute snooze has become the unofficial standard.
 
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