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My solution to this is to not have clocks in my house at all.

This has nothing to do with the fact that I still haven't figured out how to set the time on my microwave. :D

Clocks on microwaves seems to be a curiously American custom, driven by the fact that US outlet sockets generally don't have switches.

In Europe, and the UK particularly, every socket has a switch so the microwave is turned off after each use.

It might be switched off after each use in your household but it’s definitely not in others. Neither is the toaster, nor kettle.