This post is fascinating but I think it is more mundane than I realized. I thought everyone knew that when a cheap digital kitchen timer shows a time like “0 H

This post is fascinating but I think it is more mundane than I realized. I thought everyone knew that when a cheap digital kitchen timer shows a time like “0 H 1 M”, that actually means you have exactly 60 seconds or fewer for its alarm to go off. I might be wrong, but there was a Prince of Persia game (maybe for Game Boy?) that had the same timer behavior. It would show the time remaining to complete the level in minutes and would jump immediately from “1 minute” to 0. The iOS podcast app is more sophisticated than that. It normally displays how many minutes remain in the playing podcast episode. But what is cool is that at the 30 second boundary, it will decrease one minute. For example, it is at -24:30 or -24:29 that it will go from saying “25 minutes remaining” to “24 minutes remaining.” Then when 30 seconds are left, it is nice enough to show you a countdown of the seconds.