What an exercise in futility!

Why these grotesque 600m time discrepancies at Randwick on January 21st?

+138
+11
-101
+8
+45
-251
+43
+99

(in centiseconds)

Eventually my only hypothesis that holds up is that the clocks on the 7 Sportcolour (Equitime) 200m sensors were out of whack.

It's very easy for compute clocks to lose the plot, but presumably also very easy to resynchronise them.

I note that the Randwick times started working properly again in February, so maybe that meant the return from holidays of the officer responsible for pressing the resynchronise button.