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Originally Posted by waltjp
What advantage is gained by timing football in tenths of seconds?
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I rarely do this, but I am going to answer a question with a question:
What
disadvantage is gained by timing football in tenths of seconds? Those clocks with tenths only show tenths under a minute left in the quarter.
If a school's clock has tenths of a second displayed, then it doesn't mean that the game lasts longer. Maybe the school has a reason to have tenths displayed. There is a field near my place that had a clock donated by a professional football club - it was "their old one". It has tenths. Is that clock not allowed to be used in Fed football games?
When a clock initially shows 15:00 minutes, it likely changes to 14:59 as soon as the clock operator turns the switch on. In reality, there is 14:59.99s (9 repeating) in the internal memory. Likewise, when the clock reads 00:00, there could be as much as 00:00.9s left. If that human working the clock can stop the clock with 0.9s remaining, then the game shouldn't be over.
Then, again Fed basketball has a specific rule that the game is over when the clock horn sounds, not when the display shows 00:00. For Fed football to not address the same situation is an oversight.