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> Any sensible time handling solution will truncate instead of rounding.

It's not a "handling of time" its just a display. And its extremely sensible to round to the nearest displayable number instead of rounding up or down, because this minimizes the error in the displayed number. And that's what you are interested in, conveying as accurately as possible what the current time is.

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Again, I'm not trying to suggest anybody made a wrong choice here, just that they made an intentional decision.

Theres no way this is happening because somebody called math.round() without thinking, you don't round time and the developers who make apple's clock app know that. They made a conscious decision to have the timer work this way. You can disagree with whether they made the right choice, but I'm pretty sure they thought about it.

Agreed. This is a desktop widget display we're talking about here, not a log file entry.

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