Because 2:00 = 1:60
Or are we going to implement metric time?
I get the 2:00, but shouldn't it be 120? Or am I dumber than I thought? 60+60 still = 120, right?
1:60 = one minute and 60 seconds, or two minutes.
120 would be parsed as one minute and 20 seconds, or 80 seconds.
Took me a bit to get too.
Meanwhile, to heat up some chicken gently for my mutt it's
Power power power power power power power start one zero zero start.
(one minute at 500 watts)
I miss my Akai at home with its memory button.
Every microwave I've had, you hit the power button then the number corresponding to the power level you want.
my microwave has a wheel
And if my grandma had wheels she’d have been a bicycle
My grandma had wheels. She had both a car, AND a walker.
Everyone would get a ride
Clearly shows that hours and minutes are messy units. The French Revolution fixed a lot of stupid problems, but decimal time just didn’t stick for some reason.
Cannot say why decimal time didn't stick, but a similarly-proposed semi-decimal calendar with 12 months of 3 weeks each of 10 days was abandoned in France solely because Napoleon didn't like it.
It was also designed to frustrate Sunday church attendance because Sundays being every seven days would usually fall on a weekday on a workweek based on a ten-day week. While Revolutionary France experimented with state atheism and then deism, it eventually returned to Catholicism.
France spread its decimal measurements (the metre, gram, and litre) to the countries that Napoleon conquered or tried to conquer, but by that time, France was well beyond the "stamp out all semblance of religion" phase of its revolution, so a calendar designed with the intent to stifle religious attendance in mind was never going to stick very long once the French had left those territories. Besides, doing maths on length, volume, and mass is something that people do far more often than performing those calculations on dates. Sure, it would have made some things more convenient, but I'm guessing that for most people, the ten-day weeks just stuck out like a sore thumb.
In normal everyday life, you rarely need to involve time in your calculations. In science and engineering you do, and that’s when you run into problems.
When comparing two pumps, you run into issues like this. Which one is bigger: 29 m^3/h or 410 l/min. Doing calculations like that once or twice is recreational mathematics, but in a professional setting, these conversions are speed bumps standing in the way of getting stuff done.
I'm not sure 160 is 2 minutes on my microwave.
What happens when you type "1-6-0" on the time?
I have an analog microwave from 2007. It just has a mechanical timer
I've absolutely done it before because I'm weird. Entering 1:90 (on my Kenmore microwave) ticks down 1:89... 1:88... etc. until it hits 1:00 at which point it will continue as normal to 0:59.
1:60 behaves similarly.
I have a feeling the "add 30 seconds" button will correct it to proper time format, but I'll test it for science.
It probably becomes 1m 60s. I've had microwaves do it both ways, either having it only be in seconds or having seconds for two digits.
Edit: I'm dumb and very tired from Holidays, I'm leaving this up anyways though.
I dunno. I've never put in a time on my microwave - i just use the add button. Does it give you a minute and 60 seconds. Thats weird.
try it yourself. 160 is interpreted as 1 minute and 60 seconds. 200 is interpreted as 2 minutes and 0 seconds. Both are equivalent.
Chalk it up to a Christmas food coma cause I didn't catch that until you said it
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Your microwave does math funny
To save time on things that need to be microwaved for 1:30, I just hit 90 then start. Saves 1 button click.
More efficient to enter 99 seconds, to save time moving your finger from the 9 to the 0.
The fastest way to get one minute on a microwave is to press the "add 30 seconds" button twice
I didn’t realize I was so spoiled. On mine, the 1, 2, and 3 buttons add 1-3 minutes, respectively. And I don’t have to hit start either. I want a minute I press 1, done. 90 seconds would be 1 and +30, two button presses.
Rest of time savings can be achieved by practicing 30 minutes per day
Sub-Thought: I wonder how many people punch in “1:00” instead of “60”?
+30s button, twice
Answer: not enough. Sub-sub-thought: of those people, how many open the door at 0:01 to avoid the bell?
I'll only buy a microwave if it stops beeping when I open the door. So if I open it right as the timer finishes then it only does like half of one beep.
Side note, the microwave also needs to go straight to time entry once I start pressing numbers. I've seen some stupid microwaves that you need to press a Time Cook button before the numbers or it will assume you are using its preset cook settings like "pizza" or "soup".
"9999" equals 1 hour, 40 mins, and 39 seconds
I don't think you can even input :60 except as in 2 presses of [+30 seconds]
What? Of course you can... At least on every microwave I've ever had.
Had a friend who got a microwave that instead of a numpad it had a dial like a volume knob. It was so irritating for some reason to twist it and then have to turn it the opposite way to correct it. Like you wanted 45 seconds and you'd twist and it's be at 1:30, youd scroll back, 35... 50, fuck it good enough. I just would twist it to a number and then stop it 45 seconds in after I realized it was that way
Huh, all of mine since I was a kid have taken numbers up to 99 in seconds. Gotta admit I've never tried x60-x99
I regularly use 55 or 66 instead of just hitting start 2x which does the 30 second thing because it's so ingrained.
And 44 seconds is known as an Obama, 33 a Truman, 22 a Cleveland, and 11 a Polk.
Pressing more than one number is sacrilege. and 45 is treasonous.
And 44 seconds is known as an Obama, 33 a Truman, 22 a Cleveland, and 11 a Polk.
Pressing more than one number is sacrilege. and 45 is treasonous.
This should be codified
Isn’t 159 faster
+30s +30s +30s +30s
My microwave doesn't have speed cook, so this is the fastest way to get 2m on the clock
I don't own a microwave and have no idea what you are all taking about.
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