Setting the time on an oven or microwave is a difficult design problem because nobody does it often enough to learn it, so it needs to be deduced afresh, roughly every six months. I had a novel idea about how to vastly improve the UX: how about *just not displaying the time*?
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Well, this would cut off some functionality. Like: start at 16.
I think that using relative times for this would be a good compromise, considering the vast numbers of oven clocks everywhere which are displaying the wrong time or (almost more annoying) a slightly wrong time...
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Most people have a phone or watch which can reliably tell the time. Having a second source of truth isn't really helpful. Even if I read the time from an oven clock, I would have to check it against another source anyway, just because there's such a high chance it's wrong!
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Nah, this will confuse people too, I think. Do you know some people complain that microwave clocks are broken because from "1:00 they jump to 0:59"? "Gimme 40 seconds back." You'll never satisfy everyone. Handluj z tym.
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