People are timing songs perfectly for New Year's Eve midnight on Twitter

"If you play the 'Home Improvement' theme on December 31st at 11:59:10, Tim Allen’s grunt will play right as the clock strikes midnight."
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Shannon Connellan
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People are timing songs perfectly for New Year's Eve midnight on Twitter
If you play... Credit: Shutterstock / klublu

Perfectly timing your New Year's Eve midnight song is an art that requires intense track analysis (if you're that obsessive over it).

Luckily, Twitter's doing it for you.

Folks are tweeting the perfect time to play a song in order to land on a prime moment at midnight on New Year's Eve, using the words "if you play."

Others are more niche:

Some are indifferent to timing:

Some are sentimental (and mainly targeted at Australians, who can't stop turning to this song):

I mean, no pressure, but you've got one shot to get the timing perfect. Start off your new year right.

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Shannon Connellan
UK Editor

Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror.

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