Re:Why the iPhone Timer app displays a fake time
by monkpit on Monday December 28, 2020 @09:31PM
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I was thinking of the same phenomenon, but at school sporting events when the crowd would count down while watching the time on the scoreboard. The awkward pause between shouts of “zero!” and the actual buzzer.
It's a good example of how measurement of time in terms of human perception differs from the pure mathematical sense, and rounding is a good compromise here (wherever it doesn't display fractional seconds).