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Old Thu Oct 28, 2010, 12:49pm
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Originally Posted by mbyron View Post
Just a comment about this piece: the case play refers to the clock reading 0 minutes and 00 seconds, which does not take tenths into account. The clock could have been stopped with time remaining, which would explain why the horn hadn't sounded. This does not necessarily involve "lag time."
But it could involve lag time, so Snaqs could be right.

Nah, you're right!

Though I will point out that the lag time rule and clocks that don't show 10ths of a second are both relics from the same era, and so "the days of lag time" are also the days before 10ths became the norm.
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