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My mom visited me once and asked me why I didn't set the time on the stove, since, you know, it's a clock. "Mom, I have never once gone 'oh man what time is it? I better check the stove.' Especially after I had a smartphone on me all the time"
On the oven, I'll use the clock to see how long something has been baking for without pulling up my phone. Otherwise, the time it says doesn't mean much to me.
I'd rather just see a stopwatch-style function on it. Ovens usually have timers already, but sometimes it's nice to just manually track it, especially if you have to pull the food out to flip it or something mid-way.
I’m in your boat. I don’t even change my clocks for DST anymore. It doesn’t really matter beyond a ballpark what time it is most of the time (and keeping to standard time means my animals’ schedules don’t get messed up every 6 months). If there’s an appointment or something that I need an actual time for, I have my phone with tons of alarm options so it’s fine.
I haven’t set my stove clock in ages, tho I get why it has one since I can program it to start at a certain time, but beyond that appliances shouldn’t even have always-on displays. What’s the purpose other than wasting electricity?
I mean I do use clocks around the house and don't have a smartphone on me all the time but still the clocks on appliances can be off for awhile before I bother to set them again.