It's Spring Break, and I'm ready to not have the alarm ringing at 5:30 a.m. every morning (and 6:25, and 6:50 and....).

Here's what I learned during Christmas break:

To put your alarms on hold, open a shell:

cd /var/lib/alarmd
sudo mv alarm_queue.xml alarm_queue.xml.hold

reboot.

When you're ready to turn the alarms back on:

cd /var/lib/alarmd
sudo mv alarm_queue.xml.hold alarm_queue.xml

Be careful, though. If the file permissions get changed, you might not be able to change alarms later. Moving the file to ...hold rather than copying the file away and back helps to insure that the file permissions don't get changed.

Have a great vacation!