I have searched this forum, and also browsed all headers to find this subject, but I couldn't find it. I mean I have seen this in a poll, but now that I need it, it's gone..   Anyway, I have recently watched all episodes of 24 season one, and I also wrote down the runningtime on each episode to check if my profilerdata was correct. The existing RT is set to 1009 minutes. When I added my RT from each episode, I first rounded all episodes to nearest minute, as it's done in ordinary movies, and I got 3 no votes, fair enough, because I had a feeling that I should add all episode RT together, and then round up or down to nearest whole minute. I withdrewed my first contribution, and added again, and came out with a total of 1004 minutes and 91 seconds. I then took 60 seconds of the 91 seconds, and added them to the 1004 minutes, so I got 1005 minutes and 31 seconds. Then I rounded up to 1006 minutes, since the 31 seconds should be rounded up to nearest minute. And I got one yes and one no vote. I mean this is the correct time, and how it should be done, but one voter said: "1 minute = 60 seconds! 1004:91 seems a bit odd to me. I believe the current running time is correct."

In my contribution notes the second time I said: "Ok then, as you wish Now I added all episodes together, and got 1004:91 in total RT. I took the 60 seconds and added it so the RT will be 1005:31, and the total round up will be 1006 minutes.. so I missed with one round up minute in this way " Maybe I'm not expressing it correctly in my notes? I sent the no voter a PM to explain how I did it, but also wanted to hear what other people say about this. I'm not out to "get" anybody, but I'd like to clearify it so I can do it right the next time 

Keep in mind that you can't add seconds as you can the minutes.  Seconds is "base 60" so as soon as you add up to over 60, it resets back to zero and the minutes goes up by one.

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Keep in mind that you can't add seconds as you can the minutes.  Seconds is "base 60" so as soon as you add up to over 60, it resets back to zero and the minutes goes up by one.

he did in fact do this... just after he added all the seconds together... that is why he pulled the 1 minute out of the 91 seconds...

i would say that you should round after you add... so in fact your second contribution is correct, i would revise the notes however to simply state that you added each episode together then rounded up.

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OK - I am not a math expert...

I am, but I was lazy and pasted this into Excel.

My results were:

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...a total of 16 hours 48 minutes and 51 seconds...

If Bentyman got a different answer, perhaps he started with different values.

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or one is using the NTSC version (R1)

But that would make it 5% slower, not faster.

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or one is using the NTSC version (R1)

But that would make it 5% slower, not faster.

AIUI that only applies to film; stuff for TV should be the same I think

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or one is using the NTSC version (R1)

But that would make it 5% slower, not faster.

AIUI that only applies to film; stuff for TV should be the same I think

Yep, and it's called PAL speedup.

Since this is the Swedish release for 24: Season One, I would assume we both have the PAL version..