The standards require timer checks on analog timers, not digital. Digital, if battery operated, always runs until insufficient power - no decrease in timing. If plugged in, there should be no problems at all. Digital is based on osciallations of quartz at a certain frequency (I think) - it does not vary as long as powered. We never check digital timers, never been cited (AABB/CAP/FDA)- quote the standard. Further, I have had CAP inspectors who "thought" that I should be doing as intimated above . . . CAP Central agreed with me.