Changing the way questions are worded

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Originally posted by bob jenkins

That's true for most clocks, Mark, but there is one brand (which name escapes me) that sounds the horn as soon as it reaches 0:00. IOW, this brand "waits" a second before displaying 7:59, whereas most clock turn to 7:59 immediately after they're started. [/B]

I worked an all day HS scrimmage (alone, but that is another story!) at a gym where at one end was a clock that went to tenths ("The Official Clock") and at the other end, was a clock that only went to seconds.

The problem was the one that had only seconds went to 0:00 while the other clock was counting down from 0:00.9 to 0:00.0. It was driving me crazing looking up at the 0:00 clock and hearing no horn. For some reason the play was more often than not going that direction at the end of the quarter, or so it seemed.

I described the problem to the coach and he thought I was dense. Next time I was there (to watch a game) the "seconds-only" clock was dark! I had a good chuckle, they solved one problem for the officials but caused a new one.