Timing

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Time decrease at Ironman 2007 in Frankfurt

As timing (in Austria and Bavaria timekeeping , commonly known Stoppung ) the exact measurement of is time interval referred to, especially in sports and in the work preparation .

The term is predominantly used in sporting competitions and in the organization of favorable processes in industry , as well as in some technical branches and in criminology .

On the other hand, in science and technology one usually speaks of time measurement , especially with high accuracy and when it is less about time intervals than measurement in time scales ( time systems such as CET, universal time (UT), atomic time , ephemeris and sidereal time ).

Types of timing

Measurement of time intervals

Sports stopwatch / Tissot

Measurements of a relative time by differentiation through automatic or manual start and stop processes, whereby the measurement can be made either on the track side or directly on the moving object itself. (e.g. start 2016-11-19 10:10:55 / stop 2016-11-19 10:45:56 / result 00:35:01)

Measurement in a time scale (selection, time measurement)

The absolute time is stamped on the card / stoppomat

Measurement and / or documentation of the absolute time, which can possibly be differentiated by subsequent processing of two pieces of time information. (Unit e.g .: 2016-11-19 23:20:01)

Accuracies

The accuracies are determined by the following deviations.

See also

Footnotes

  1. StoppOmat App for Android. Google Playstore, April 24, 2014, accessed November 19, 2016 .