Why Doesn't My Time Match the Results
This is a question I have answered over email countless number of times over the years. The answer has to do with the timing being used at the meet. There are hand-times (or HT) and fully automatic timing (or FAT).
Hand times are done with a group of people standing at the finish line. Someone presses a button on a timer when the starter shoots the gun, and then someone presses a button when you cross the line. This way is very common for weekday meets and is much less accurate. This requires only people and a Sprint 8 device typically.
Fully Automatic Timing has a sensor on the starter pistol that causes the timing system to start and a super powered digital camera shoots a shot of you crossing the line at the exact moment. These times are super accurate down to the .0001 second and require an expensive timing system.
To make these times equal, hand-times are rounded up and then penalized by .24 seconds. If the results show a 10.87, that would be rounded to 10.9 and then penalized up to 11.14. This is the time that shows up on your athlete page. To be technical the official results from the meet should already round up and display the times as 10.9 in the first place but that does not always happen.
So if you are reading this, do not sweat it at all. You are not the first, nor will you be the last, to email with the question, "Why doesn't my time match the results?"