[craftkiller]

The technology I was thinking of was digital screens. Analog clocks made sense when the best you could do was attach some arrows to some gears on a rotating shaft. Now we can individually toggle lights in a grid containing millions of lights.

> Digital. 1 on microwave less than 99. Where else in world 1 < 99 makes sense? Digital time math crazy.

Everywhere? 1 is always less than 99 everywhere.

[forlorn_mammoth]

I press 1 on my microware. It starts to run for 1 minute.

I press 99 on my microwave. It starts to run for 99 seconds.

1 minute < 99 seconds.

[Clamchop]

This isn't anything to do with digital time, it's just a convenience of recent microwaves. The digital microwaves of the 1990s did not have this feature, but they were still digital. If you input 1, you just got 1 second.

On microwaves that do have this feature, set the power first to bypass it.

[craftkiller]

Yes, they're different units. Just like how 1 month is less than 99 days and 1 pound is less than 99 ounces. That isn't a digital vs analog thing.