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Originally posted by BktBallRef
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Originally posted by bob jenkins
Most game clocks will "instantly" move to 34 (or 19:59 or 7:59) when they are turned on. The actual time remianing is the time shown plus up to .9 seconds.
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I'm not sure that I agree with that. How do you know unless you're the one starting the clock? I don't believe that's possible to determine from the court.
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Most game clocks do instantly move when started, such as from 8:00 to 7:59. In effect, they display a truncated time, that is, the actual time with the tenths of seconds removed. For example 7:59.9, 7:59.5, 7:59.3, and 7:59.0 are all displayed as 7:59. Now in the middle of a game, the clock may be stopped at, for example, 4:59.9 and when it is restarted, it will be a full second before the clock displays 4:58 (when it reaches 4:58.9). I guess this is a good reason for an accurate count, because 10 seconds running off the clock could actually be only 9.1 seconds ( 4:59.0 to 4:49.9 - which displays as 4:59 to 4:49).
Haven't you ever seen a game clock display zero, without the horn sounding (Assuming that the clock is functioning correctly)? That's because there is 0.1 to 0.9 seconds remaining.