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 The Alarm API supports the following features:
-* Web application developer can add multiple alarms and get a unique ID for each of them to be removed later.
+* Web applications can add multiple alarms and get a returned ID for each of them.
-* Web application developer can also specify customized JSON object data corresponding to each alarm setting.
+* The returned ID is unique and can be further used to specify and remove the alarm.
-* When the alarm goes off, an alarm message will be fired and can be handled by a callback fucnction through the System Message Handler.
+* Web applications can pass a customized JSON object to descirbe more details about each alarm setting.
-* All the alarms that have been set can be automatically restored even if a device reboot is encountered.
+* When the alarm goes off, an alarm message will be fired and can be handled by the System Message Handler.
+* All the alarms that have been set can be automatically restored even if a system reboot is encountered.
+* Alarm API actually does more than setTimeout because it can actively *wake up* the system from sleeping.
+* Whenever the system clock or timezone is adjusted at run-time, all the saved alarms will be rescheduled.
 == Proposed API ==