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Originally posted by PAT THE REF
But if you have definite knowledge of the time on the clock... i.e. 1.2 sec etc... you would place the time back on the clock.
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You can only put time back on the clock if you have definite knowledge that more than one second ran off, and if you have definite knowledge what the time should be. You are required to allow the clock to have a second of reaction time (which most people call lag time). So if you
(a)look just as you blow the whistle, and see that the clock says :07, and then the clock stops at :06, you can't put time back, because one second of lag time is given.
(b) blow the whistle, and then look, and the clock stops at :03, but you didn't look when you whistled, so you can't be sure that more than one second ran off, you can't put time back.
(c) look and blow the whistle at the same moment, and the clock says :05, and then stops at :02, you set the clock back to :05.
(d) whistle without ever looking, and the horn blows, and you don't know what the clock said, you can't put time back.
All of this only applies to "rulebook" officials. If you're one of hte "common sense" people, you just do what ever seems right at the moment.