Alarm duration below one minute

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This has been raised before, but I think it's worth raising again as it seems, 
on the surface to a non-programmer, to be an easy fix.

Just some quick background on how I (and possibly others) use an alarm clock.  
For me I have a digital watch that rings every morning at 6.30.  It does 20 
beeps then stops.  I just wake up then get up, and dont need to press a sleep 
button - I guess I'm just a morning person, but going through an endless cycle 
of alarm, sleep, alarm, sleep is just not how I am.  On the other hand I could 
just turn the alarm off, but I don't want to have to do that, my phone may be 
down stairs or not next to the bed and one minute is a long time for it to ring 
when it's not wanted.  I, and possibly others, am not looking for a timer 
function, just the ability to set the alarm for a number of seconds so I wake 
up.  Who needs an alarm to ring for a whole minute anyway? Most will "sleep" it 
after 20 secs.  And 10 minutes or half an hour? I can't imagine any real 
practical situation where you would need an alarm to ring for that length of 
time.  

I imagine the problem has something to do with how android "times" work, so it 
is difficult to offer the choice of seconds.  But to the non-technical person, 
it would seem to be so simple.

Great app, but I can't use it because I don't want to have to turn it off.... 

HTC Hero - Froydvillain 2.21

Original issue reported on code.google.com by guy.scar...@gmail.com on 29 Jun 2011 at 3:04

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The alarm timeout feature was initially added to handle the case where you left 
your phone somewhere and an alarm went off.  The feature gives you a way to 
prevent the alarm from going off forever.  It displays a dialog indicating that 
you 'missed' an alarm.

The request you're describing seems slightly different.  You basically want a 
way to make an alarm dismiss itself after some amount of time.  It's certainly 
possible, but would require a non trivial change.  I haven't been working on 
this project much lately, but I'll leave this open as a feature request if I or 
someone else gets a chance to start churning through feature requests again.

Original comment by kraigs.a...@gmail.com on 29 Jun 2011 at 8:24

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Thanks for getting back so quickly. I had a feeling it was more complex than
I imagined. Thanks for developing android apps, you devs rock!

Original comment by guy.scar...@gmail.com on 30 Jun 2011 at 9:25