Why Snooze Nine Minutes?
According to Mental Floss, Before Digital Clocks, Engineers Were Restricted to Nine Minute Snooze Periods by the Gears in a Standard Clock. .. . and Because...
According to Mental Floss, before digital clocks, engineers were restricted to nine minute snooze periods by the gears in a standard clock. ... And because the consensus was that 10 minutes was too long, and could allow people to fall back into a "deep" sleep, clock makers decided on the nine-minute gear.
Why is snooze 9 minutes?
The reason behind the 9-minute snooze, according to a Youtube channel Apple Explained, is Apple's tribute to the history of alarm clocks. ... Some people guessed that an 11-minute period is long enough for a person to enter deep sleep, so an 11-minute snooze would wake up the person feeling heavy and dozy.
Why is it very common to have a 9 minute snooze interval on alarm clocks Why not 10 instead?
Alarm clocks did exist before the snooze function, so there was already a standard gear setup that innovators had to work with. Getting the gear teeth to line up to allow for exactly ten minutes wasn't possible, so they had to choose between setting it at nine minutes and a few seconds or a little bit over ten minutes.
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