Your clock could simply display that it’s 4:09. Or your clock could grab your arm like a Parisian poet strolling along the Rhine, and extol the virtues of time: “Four-oh-nine, a cosmic sight, / ...

Are you someone who hits snooze three times before crawling out of bed — or do you leap up at the first chime, wondering why anyone would want to delay the inevitable? The snooze button is a divisive ...