Time zone: Select your time zone. KAlarm uses this time zone throughout, except when you override it for individual alarms.

Holiday region: Select which country's or region's holidays to use. This affects recurring alarms for which the option to exclude holidays is selected.

Wake from suspend before alarm: Enter the number of minutes before the alarm trigger time to wake the system, for alarms set to wake from suspend. This allows you to ensure that the system has time to fully restore itself before the alarm triggers, so that the alarm can trigger at the correct time. This option is only shown if the system configuration allows multiple alarms to wake the system from suspension. See Wake From Suspend for more information.

Start of day for date-only alarms: Set the start-of-day time for the purposes of triggering date-only alarms, i.e. ones for which the Any time option was selected. On the date when they are due, such alarms will be output at the earliest opportunity during the 24 hours starting from the start-of-day time.

Working Hours group box: These options let you define your working hours, needed when the Only during working hours option is selected for a recurrence in the Alarm Edit dialog.

KOrganizer event duration: Enter the event duration to set in KOrganizer for alarms which are copied to KOrganizer. The default duration is zero.