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As I understand how you describe events, you should never have left the floor. The 1 second delay provision applies to the delay in your blowing the whistle and the timer reacting. If there is under one second remaining and the timer reacts quickly enough to stop the clock, you play out the game with the .2 seconds left. And all clocks stop within microseconds of a timer punching the button, flipping the switch, etc.
As you explain the clock functioning in this gym, the rewind two .2 seconds reflected where the clock was when the timer stopped it. In any other gym the clock would have read .2 seconds as soon as the timer stopped it. After the automatic reset, this clock also read .2 seconds, the time when the timer stopped the clock. Those .2 seconds should be played. Given that you knew the characteristics of the clock, I think you should have remained on the floor until verifying that the clock was not stopped by the timer prior to the horn. I think that once you left, it is probably a different story. But because of this wierd clock, you really left before the game should have ended, or would have ended with the kind of timing rules envisioned by NFHS.
Oh, and you should have returned with a shotgun or other weapon of choice and destroyed that clock so that none of your fellow officials ever deal with anything like that. What a ridiculous design feature.
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