Does time need to come off the clock on TO?

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Originally Posted by jearef

Unless we are dealing with a sitch where the timer starts the clock when he should not have, it is difficult for me to imagine any situation where we would have "definite knowledge" of a timing mistake in tenths of a second.

One poster has suggested that perhaps all of this could have taken place in .2 seconds. Although I could certainly be wrong, I just can't see that happening. I'd be willing to bet that we could ask a timer to start and then stop the clock as quickly as possible, and he couldn't do it in .2 seconds. My guess is that the timer in this case did a good job. I don't know how you could justify any adjustment to the clock under the given circumstances.

Having run a clock, I can say that 0.2 is unlikely, even with the hand held device. On my stop watch just now, the shortest time I could do is 0.18 secs with the most common being 0.23 secs.