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So for someone who has a microwave that only works in minutes and actual seconds, meaning 59 is the highest my seconds can go, before the minute counter is increased. Do these microwaves just work in terms of 100 seconds? So if you input 10:00 it's not actually 10 minutes but rather 1000 seconds, meaning it's now 16:40 on a "correct" microwave?
They do a weird conversion in my experience. I think for the first “minute” it just counts all numbers in the seconds field as seconds, then as it counts down, the next minute is only 60 seconds.
Eg I think I’ve tried putting in 90 seconds, and that is actually 90 seconds, same as if I were to put in 1:30 (minute and a half)
So I might guess something like 4:90 == 5:30
This is also common for datetime inputs. Put the 35th of february into javascript and it'll give you the 7th of march.
This is the natural behavior when you don't do bounds-checking.
The first seconds counter has to run out before the next minute counts down adding 60s to the seconds counter.
So 99:99 is the same as 1:40:39
From my experience the numbers left of the colon are minutes and the numbers to the right are seconds. The seconds count down to 0 and then reset to 60 as the minute count decreases by 1 For whatever reason I actually get a tiny kick out of this weird behavior and almost always set my microwave for X minutes and 99 seconds (also almost never 100%power), my favorite part is adding 30 seconds with X:60< <70 so in theory it should be able to just go back to 9x but it always jumps up a minute and adds 30 instead. It knows 99 seconds is silly but still let's me do it.
Yeah my microwave lets me put 99 seconds in, and that's the highest I will go. In fact, I only put multiples of 11 in, because it's the quickest, just bing-bang-start.
On the rare occasion I'm microwaving something that requires, say, 5 minutes, it gets 444 and we hope for the best.
Let me fix your math. I assume you have a keypad and enter repeat digits as the quickest method.
Don't be nitpicky it's annoying, you got the point. We're making jokes about microwaves here.
EDIT: And to add, it lets you do a max of 99 seconds, but the didgits are 00:00, so you either do 99s or 1:39. So 4:44 is 4m44s.