Microwave & Oven Time Adjustments
Ovens and microwaves are kind-hearted devices. Kind as they are, they always wants you to be aware of the current time. Their inventors must have considered this to be a nice bonus feature, in times when the devices are not following their primary function. But unlike smart devices (or phones, as we call them today), they don't pay much attention to daylight-saving hours, one of the best human inventions so far.
They do mean well, but rely on manual human care, whenever the way that we track time changes. Their designers believed in well-meaning users, who regularly maintain their machines and fix the temporal offset of their microwaves clocks, whenever they occurr. Naturally, reality proved that the actual user experience differed.
Whenever I arrive in a place where I become witness of such a time offset, I make it my personal business to do the work that these designers intended. I can't look at a device being treated this badly. No matter if I'm an esteemed guest at a friend's place or a paying customer in an Airbnb: I am up to the task. The usual response by onlookers of my neurotic behaviour is this:
What the hell is wrong with you?
Some people rely on this temporal offset. Being unable or too lazy to fix it, they adapted to the wrongdoings of their heating device's clock. Some even believe that they can fake time and make it appear like they still have so much, when actually they should be in a hurry. Now, when a good Samaritan such as myself enters their home and messes with their reality, things can get out of hand.
Other people just don't care about the matter. They have learnt to ignore their microwave & oven time displays and rely instead on their smarter clocks, that they carry around in their pockets. If I confessed my intention to correct the time of their kitchen devices, they would frown at me:
Whatever for?
But just like the devices, who really want nothing less than showing you the current time, I only mean well. However, they are misunderstood machines. They don't seem to cooperate when it comes to actually setting the time. Usually, it requires a lot of wit, patience and former experience with oven and microwave clock time-setting in order to do this task justice.
My natural skill to treat devices with proper respect, makes it one of my superpowers (apart from napping) to be one of the few people on earth who are able to set the time on these gentle devices.
And in the end, isn't the current time all we want to know when we look at the displays of our kitchen devices?