A question

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

Either the timer was out & out cheating or he innocently decided to take matters into his own hands and fix some prior clock error. In either case he was dead wrong, but you have to wonder why he picked this point in the game to make things right.

There's a lot of ways that the floor officials screwed this up, but once they discovered the error the simple thing to do would have been to take 6 seconds off the clock, since this is the amount of time the timer said he waited.

As the Referee that is what I would have done. I consider that to be definite knowledge of how much time should have come off.

The timer clearly should have notified the officials immediately after the first clock error and had that one fixed then. The timer should never take it upon himself to change the clock. I'm sure that he is a good guy and made an error in judgment. He will learn from this experience and be better next time.