Sleeptimer

A Sleep Timer ( Sleep timer and snooze function or ) is a timer in electronic devices particularly in consumer electronics. By pressing a button on the unit or on the remote control can be a turn-off time (usually an hour or in several stages from 30 minutes to two hours) can be selected. The device then switches itself into standby mode (standby) to, ie is turned off but not unplugged. It should be noted standby consumption.

The timer as ( A ) Sleep function is in contrast to the alarm clock. A combination of these two timer types can often be found at Radio alarm clocks.

• Consumer electronics