How dumb can you get?

Well, have you tried typing "traffic"?

As in "go play in..."

This has probably saved lots of people from accidentally setting an alarm too far in the future when they meant to set it for the next morning. You may not agree with the choice, but I'm sure this has helped more people than it has annoyed.

Set a reminder to set yourself an alarm

The AI should be smarter. "That's an alarm for Tuesday, right?" is a confirmation it could ask.
- Assistant != AI.
- Just do it manually.
  You absolutely can set an alarm for a specific day in google clock version 7.6 from the play store.
  After you set the alarm if you click on it you can give it a name such as "laundry" and set it for a specific day such as "Sunday"
  I have alarms for workdays and alarms for times to take medicine.
  You can set an alarm for a early wake up for a flight time a week ahead of time if you want. The assist is super basic to protect you from doing dumb shit, but you absolutely can do it manually.
- I think my Google Mini does ask? At the least, it confirms, "OK. I've set an alarm for $X."
  You got me thinking, need to experiment a bit.
Doesn't that just suggest that the thing doesn't work right if they have to do this to avoid incorrect settings? I'm pretty sure 100% of people who want to set an alarm this far out but can't are annoyed.

You know what's even more annoying? You can set a notification or email reminder to go off prior to a calendar appointment, but can't set an alarm to go off prior to one. I need my phone to make noise when it's time for me to get ready, not just show a notification!

Isn't it possible to change the notification sound by selecting an alarm sound , just for calendar notifications?
This should give you what you need
The only caveat i can think of now, is that notifications don't loop the sound... So pretty much useless, unless you just need one loud reminder
- Notifications have a lower level of priority than an alarm. Notification volume is set differently than alarm volume. Alarms take over the screen whereas notifications just give you a prompt at the top. As a person with ADD, it's a huge inconvenience and I need to use workarounds that are unreliable. I just want a ducking alarm when I need it without getting some stupid artificial limitation on why I can't do it.
I had the same issue and went for the app AMDroid. Worked really well
- Big fan of AMDroid, I used to set 10 alarms every morning because I turn them off while still too far asleep, with AMDroid I only need to set 1!

ummm Ackwtewely this is a feature because....

Nah. Fuck that.
If I want to wake up early on Tuesday next week what I need is an alarm that morning. A human would understand the prompt and do it correctly, a computer assistant should be able to do exactly the same.

Yes. If I say "set an alarm for 3,422 minutes from now" my fucking computer phone should be able to do it. The whole point is it's NOT a human.

You go into the clock app

And set the timer

The whole point of the assistant is to automate the manual steps 🤔
- While true, I think those two steps are simple enough as is and really aren't improved by a digital assistant
- https://media2.giphy.com/media/cmxSrj72dyQnlLhSQf/giphy.gif
  Only teasing
The whole problem is that you can't set an alarm more than 24 hours ahead of time unless you set it to repeat. The timer also gets reset if the phone restarts or if you bump the stop button on the notification screen. Workarounds work most of the time but they set you up for problems. The artificial limitation is unnecessary and just creates problems for people like myself who have ADD.
- I said so elsewhere to one other, but I will reiterate that the jest came from viewing the remark outside of its proper context. I apologize for trivializing the matter.
- Oneplus clock app lets you choose any date and time in the future for alarms so I would assume many other apps can do this too.

I have felt this too! Reminders are usually pop up notifications that are easy to miss. I may have a temporary solution. On Android I can select the days on which the alarm should ring. It gets a bit annoying if your date is more than 7 days in the future. But still gets the job done

Asking a fitbit to set a timer for 2 hours is dumber.

Apparently it only supports a 1h39m59s at a maximum. So responds saying it can't set that timer. But then offers clickable suggestions for 1h50m and 2h10m ... which gets you the exact same response.

And of course the reminder is super quiet and polite, going unseen until after you needed it.

Isn't what you want a reminder anyway? Seems like an odd ask for an alarm to be days an hours in advanced as opposed to 6am tomorrow.

- Did you get drunk on Wednesday? Why wouldn't you remember you need to wake up the night before and set an alarm?

An alarm is something urgent, 3 days and 5 hours from now isn't urgent, that's something you need to be reminded about, which is what the reminder prompt is for.

An alarm is something that warns or signals, by one definition. It doesn't necessarily need to be urgent.
However, Google is weird. At least on my phone, I can easily set a timer for 3 days and 5 hours without a problem.
Alarms on Google typically mean wakeup alarms. That may trigger the snooze/cancel functionality when that timer expires. Odd that you can't set one way ahead of time.
I am not trying to be a jackass here or anything, but I have never actually thought about the distinctions between alarms, timers and reminders. I just kinda thought they were all the same. shrug
Or it's used to wake you up in the morning. If I just set an early doctor's appointment for next week, and I need to wake up early, I'm gonna set my alarm for that right now, while I'm thinking about it, so I don't have to worry. Frankly, the assistant is just stupid.