The Silent Switch

I was sitting in church today with my Silent Switch engaged. All of a sudden my phone started to emit my ringtone. I beat a hasty retreat and saw that my Clock Alarm was going off. Apparently this is the way it works. To me a Silent Switch should Silence everything.
So, my question is why was it designed that way.
And, is there any chance that could be "fixed" in the next OS.

honestly, in fact it would be a major design flaw if the silent switch would silence the alarm. Maybe over night I want my phone to be silent but i still want it to wake me? Or I leave the silent switch on by accident, that means I should miss work?
It's very obvious. the silent switch turns off everything - except for alarms. which is good. You just need to be a little more careful.
Think of other phones where even switching the phone off doesn't prevent the alarms from going off. At least you can turn the iphone off ^^ Or you can just turn of the alarms with a simple switch without deleting them and turm them on later.

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