It just blinks if I put a time greater than 59 for the seconds and waits for me to input somethinf valid.

Then what a boring microwave you have :)

I dunno. That blinking can be kind of nice sometimes. It's like... hypnotic.

I do the same thing. Except if I were to put in 1:92 I think my microwave would assume that's 192 seconds, not one minute and ninety two seconds. (Have I ever mentioned how I wish time were metric?)

Around the French Revolution, when the metric system was invented, they also invented "metric time": 20 metric hours/day 100 metric minutes/metric hour 100 metric seconds/metric minute 10 days/metric week 30 days/metric month 12 metric months/year (they couldn't fix that) 5.245 extra vacation days each year. Nobody liked it because there were fewer weekends than the calendar they were used to.