When to wind the clock?

[Rich]

Originally Posted by chseagle

On some systems that have the TO timer, the system freezes until after the TO Timer shows zero.

And credit to Eagle for reminding me of something I forgot -- on some of these systems, there's no way to cut short a timeout once it's been started. Miserable system. If the timer starts telling me about such a system, I tell him/her to please use some other timing device and to use a manual horn. I always bring up the timeout where both teams are ready early as an example, so I don't look like a petty dictator (which I am, but it's nice if people don't see me that way).