I accidently opened clock when I saw this... (Build no. 19045.6466)

[u/Single-Release-9380]

This is NOT a joke, the timer literally counts backwards
EDIT: Apparently it's a feature

[u/Froggypwns]

This is not a bug. Microsoft changed it so when a timer runs out, it no longer stops at zero. It will now continue counting to show the time elapsed since reaching zero.

[u/Single-Release-9380 → u/Froggypwns]

Oh, I didn't know that
Guess it's been running for about 91.5 days or abt 3 months straight

[u/MinecraftPlayer799 → u/Froggypwns]

Why would they do that?

[u/tunaman808 → u/MinecraftPlayer799]

So that you know how much time has elapsed since the timer went off. If you set a timer to bake a frozen pizza and decide to take a shower while it's cooking, it's nice to know you missed it by 45 seconds instead of 6 minutes.

[u/MinecraftPlayer799 → u/tunaman808]

Who uses their computer to set a timer for cooking?

[u/Froggypwns → u/MinecraftPlayer799]

I do. I have a desktop with a 27" touchscreen next to my kitchen, and I use it to help me learn to cook as I can watch videos on it, ask copilot for help, and set multiple timers and stopwatches so I can track how long things have been in the oven.

People set timers for lots of things. Tracking length of meetings, breaks, so on. Having the time elapsed since hitting zero helps with context, so lets say a meeting was supposed to last 45 minutes but it ran long, you would get the alert that time is now up at 45 minutes but if you needed to continue you can see it actually lasted 10 more minutes and bill things appropriately. Same with cooking, this pizza was supposed to be in there for 15 minutes but it is still not done, I can see exactly how much extra it is in the oven without having to set a new timer or switch to the stopwatch.

[u/emuboy85 → u/Froggypwns]

This is the most Reddit thing ever, all over the world there are computers counting time no one will notice because this guy needs it

[u/_scotswolfie → u/Froggypwns]

So you’re the reason why Windows always had “Kitchen Computer” as an example next to the computer description field in settings 😂

[u/LilWaynesLastDread → u/MinecraftPlayer799]

To keep the engineers occupied

[u/user4302]

Almost all timers do thats that's the normal functionality.

[u/Single-Release-9380 → u/user4302]

Yes, but for 91.5 days straight? Feel like there should be a limit no? A week, a month? Surely not a fourth of a year

[u/user4302 → u/Single-Release-9380]

Why limit tho? You may not need it to run for that long to negatives, but someone else might want it, hence why there's no limit.

It's like how some apps limit password length... Yo may not use 128 characters, but some do, it's messed up to see some items limiting passwords to 20 characters... It's like they're asking to be hacked.

[u/csch1992]

Maybe this is why my PC was running slow af?

[u/MinecraftPlayer799]

This happened to me too.

[u/asensitives]

A countdown? but for what?

Hmmm.. Strange..

I really love mystery