Why doesn't Mountain Lion give you the choice of different snooze time?

It always depends on your activity on the computer and if you want it to go into snooze mode.

True it might be in the settings.

There is probably a reason they set it for 15 minutes

I agree with you completely. I used the drop down snooze feature at lot in previous OS versions of iCal but it does seem to be missing in Mountain Lion.

I find that one calendar for events and reminders is most efficient. Reducing the features of iCal and adding a new app, Reminders, doesn't help

Sorry to say it but I feel it is part of the process of dumbing down useful features and adding more bling.

Ditto, this is a disaster. I live by my reminders but need to bounce stuff to tomorrow, next week etc. all the time. Apple, ***?

Yup, needs to be restored to the old dropdown and options of snooze time.

Submit your feedback requesting this feature directly to Apple using the appropriate link on the Feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Done. Thanks for the suggestion.

My life also runs on alerts, this is a major issue for me. It's seems like an odd thing for Apple to do. It's obvious multiple snooze options is useful, that's why they had it in all their other versions. Could the removal of this feature have anything to do with iCloud? Maybe they can't handle multiple snooze durations across all devices? If this is the case I would prefer not to use iCloud and have my snooze options back.

Thanks for feedback link Meg, I've left some for them.

It is incredible that Apple made of the so biggest errors!

How can we work without a skeletal snooze function ?

Put Snooze back the way it was! Snooze was an integral part of my work flow. The old Snooze always irked because it had the limited snooze options availble--5 minutes, 15 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 1 day, 1 week. I always wondered why you couldn't set it to snooze for say 4 hours, or 10 days. But compared to a set 15 minutes? I'll take the old way any day.

This is a major issue and a big blunder by Apple.

I was upset about this too until I realized that BusyCal has variable snooze control, with more flexibility than the old iCal one (snooze for x minutes, hours or days, not just fixed intervals).