The zero button no longer works on the one at work and there’s no “plus 30 seconds” button, so if you want a minute you can do 59 or 61 seconds. It’s actually not possible to program it for precisely one minute.
Funny how taking a toddler shopping during a pandemic doesn’t seem romantic.
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The one at my parents house will go for 1 minute if you type in 100. I can’t believe they still have that thing. I think they have had it since about 1984. Remember using it in high school back then.
My microwave at home will go for one minute if you type in 100 and the one at work used to, as well. Don’t most microwaves do this?
Yeah, I thought 99 would mean 99 seconds, but 100 would mean one minute.
This has always been my experience. How else would you put one minute on? Forced to use 60 seconds?
Yeah I forgot the reason you posted was the zero button was broken. I got distracted thinking about how ridiculous it is that my parents’ microwave is almost 40 years old and still working.
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Our first microwave had a dial to set the time. Not really accurate.
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I got one of those when I moved away for college. Took forever to cook anything. Must have been a low-wattage model.
My microwave was the cheaper cousin to one that you could use as an awkward electronic calendar. So it knows the date. My cheaper one doesn’t ever display the date, or do anything with the date. But every time the power goes out, i need to set the time AND DATE before it will let me do anything else with it.
It’s always 11/11/11 when the power is restored.
Does it do daylight savings time automatically? That would be why you have to change the date.
I’ve never noticed it suddenly going off by an hour, so probably not? It loses power more than twice a year, and I’d far prefer to change the time manually twice a year compared to having to enter a date that it doesn’t display several times a year. But that’s a charitable thought on your part towards the developer.
Happy Veterans Day!
Why can’t you just leave it at 11/11/11?
I’m trying to actuarialize in the Dungeon (aka my basement spare room), but it is coooold!!! I got a blanket over my lap like an old geezer!!! 
Workplace Microwave side note:
At work, if I enter 2:99 fro the time, it goes for 2 minutes, 99 secs, not 299 secs
We’re doing microwaves? Our microwave was failing, the button that opened the door was getting really fussy and it wasn’t anything nice, so I replaced it. Got a Panasonic thing. It microwaves. It convection ovens. It broils. It air fries. If you’re feeling bold, it’ll microwave and broil at the same time.
It’s not super intuitive to use. It has a nice LCD display, and some of the icons are helpful. But it has broil 1 and broil 2. Broil 1 is basically ‘high,’ and broil 2 is ‘low.’ You’ve got a big stupid display, why not just say ‘broil high’ and ‘broil low?’
Also, to set the baking temp you repeatedly push the ‘bake’ button, rather than turning the dial. I’d rather turn the dial to set the temp, press enter, and then turn the dial to set the time.
I’m sure I’ll get used to it, but it’s a bit of a learning curve. But I made fries in it (amazing) and used it on broil 1 to toast a bagel today (pretty nice), so I appreciate the flexibility. Nice to have a second oven option, and during the summer it’ll create less heat than our big range, I assume.
Okay I have a thing. I had a small cry last night because I told my husband that I think he sits on his phone too much in between workout sets and it bothers me sometimes.
I couldn’t figure out if I was crying because we hadn’t seen each other for most of the day (lol), or I just didn’t want to make him feel bad or what…
All I know is that it was a bit of an overreaction.
^ This post brought to you after my other post about sexism (I also cried a little today) only because I didn’t push send and it was still in the box.
Well, I can’t actually see what date it thinks it is, but I assume it advances the date one day every day. 
Every time I need to set it (which is every time it loses power) I set it to 11/11/11.