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larkim Jul 2024 2:26pm, 5 Jul 2024 24,978 posts	Quote Pin larkim But don't times round up anyway like that? I thought that was the way it should be for roundings of race times that aren't recorded to 0.x of a second?
J2R Jul 2024 2:35pm, 5 Jul 2024 5,418 posts	Quote Pin J2R Race times are normally rounded properly, as far as I know. So 18:59.4 is 18:59, 18:59.5 is 19:00.
larkim Jul 2024 2:36pm, 5 Jul 2024 24,980 posts	Quote Pin larkim This is in the WA technical rules:- So assuming we're talking road races, even if the timing system reports then as .x of a second, "official" recording should only ever be rounded up to the nearest second.
larkim Jul 2024 2:38pm, 5 Jul 2024 24,981 posts	Quote Pin larkim I guess it's logically because if you post 18:59.4 but want to round down, you're effectively saying you ran in 18:59 when in fact you took longer than that.
J2R Jul 2024 3:29pm, 5 Jul 2024 5,419 posts	Quote Pin J2R Wow! That comes as a surprise to me, as I've never noticed this happening before. Maybe that's because the results are now being submitted with .x of a second whereas before they were not? "I guess it's logically because if you post 18:59.4 but want to round down, you're effectively saying you ran in 18:59 when in fact you took longer than that." - Yes, but not as long as 19:00.
larkim Jul 2024 3:49pm, 5 Jul 2024 24,982 posts	Quote Pin larkim I guess the "fault" is on the part of the chip timing company publishing results to the 0.1s detail. I don't think I've seen any results locally that give that level of precision, so I suppose I have to trust that they are rounding properly (who knows, they could be rounding 18:59.4 to 18:59, and no-one would ever know!)
SPR Jul 2024 5:42pm, 5 Jul 2024 45,005 posts	Quote Pin SPR I've never seen tenths or lower for road.
Jen HB Jul 2024 5:53pm, 5 Jul 2024 2,670 posts	Quote Pin Jen HB Aah, the delights of rounding rules.... (I work in a lab and there are 2 exceptions: for one technique it's round up the other is round down)