[at-l] Almost totally un trail related

[ryan@hack.net (Ryan K. Brooks)]

I would guess that it's because then the clock-guts only have to watch one
digit, and not some sort of carry bit.

R


Phil Heffington wrote:

> OK, it's a slow day at the office, and this query is only marginally
> trail related (someone did keep waking me up with their closeby
> sleep/snooze alarm at the Hotel Doyle when I stayed there on my hike
> this year.)
>
> My question is this, "Why are the sleep/snooze functions on alarm clocks
> set for 9 minutes?"  Did some chronologist or sleepologist, or whatever,
> do some sort of scientific study on this, or what?  Seems like 10
> minutes would make more sense to me!
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