At least on some common older alarm clock chipsets, I’m pretty sure that hitting Snooze didn’t do anything prior to the alarm starting to go off. Like, it wasn’t an “advance alarm time by N minutes prior to alarm going off” button.
I have also seen newer alarm clocks where if you have an upcoming alarm and hit Snooze in advance, it does push the alarm back; on those clocks, something like what the guy in the comic is suggesting would presumably work.
But there was some chipset that I’m pretty sure basically most inexpensive 7-segment alarm clocks used around the 1970 and 1980s and on or so used. They all had an alarm on-off switch, a snooze button, a set-time button, an hour button, and a minute button. Same logic on all of 'em. Different vendors, different cases, different buttons, but same functionality. And on that thing, hitting “Snooze” when the alarm wasn’t active didn’t do anything.
Oh yes, I’m sadly old enough to have had several of those classic alarms (they exist to this day), and on none of them did the snooze button do anything if the alarm wasn’t already sounding.
Maybe some fancy old one attempted pre-snooze features, but I don’t know of it! … and neither does the comic creator either, apparently.
At least on some common older alarm clock chipsets, I’m pretty sure that hitting Snooze didn’t do anything prior to the alarm starting to go off. Like, it wasn’t an “advance alarm time by N minutes prior to alarm going off” button.
Has it ever done anything else?
I have also seen newer alarm clocks where if you have an upcoming alarm and hit Snooze in advance, it does push the alarm back; on those clocks, something like what the guy in the comic is suggesting would presumably work.
But there was some chipset that I’m pretty sure basically most inexpensive 7-segment alarm clocks used around the 1970 and 1980s and on or so used. They all had an alarm on-off switch, a snooze button, a set-time button, an hour button, and a minute button. Same logic on all of 'em. Different vendors, different cases, different buttons, but same functionality. And on that thing, hitting “Snooze” when the alarm wasn’t active didn’t do anything.
Oh yes, I’m sadly old enough to have had several of those classic alarms (they exist to this day), and on none of them did the snooze button do anything if the alarm wasn’t already sounding.
Maybe some fancy old one attempted pre-snooze features, but I don’t know of it! … and neither does the comic creator either, apparently.