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Old Tue Nov 23, 2004, 09:47pm
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Originally posted by AndrewMcCarthy
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Originally posted by ABoselli
It was the 2nd quarter and the coach from the home team says to the R, "There's no tenths in college football! But since it's our gaffe, we have to play it"
If it had been a "normal" clock, it would have still said "0:01" at that moment anyway.

The clocks with the tenths all have a way of turning that feature off- the operator rarely has the know-how to do it, however. Just like the annoying horn or siren.
Hmm... I disagree. There are some clocks that turn to 14:59 as soon as they're turned on. In those cases, there is actually more time remaining than what reads on the clock. For a tenth of a second, there is 14:59.9s, 14:59.8s, 14:59.7s, etc... until 14:59.0s at which point it changes to 14:58.

Carry that down to the dying seconds. At 0:00.9, that clock will read 0:00. These clocks have the ability to be stopped with zeros, but not have the horn go off.
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