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If you begin Star Trek: Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight

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are there any technical utilities to achieve these kinds of very specific 'start times'?
in other words.. it would be neat if there was a VLC/Jellyfin/Kodi plugin (some sort of video player) that you could schedule to start a video, to the second.
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- I'm not sure the people who engage in this sort of tomfoolery are concerned with atomic clock-level precision.
- Cron!
  This concludes my TED talk
  
  Crom!
  This concludes my Conan The Barbarian talk
- You can use Task Scheduler in windows to run a command to run VLC at a specific time
  
  You'd have to run a few tests to figure out how long it takes to start and open the file, though - there will definitely be a delay
  
  You'd have to take load times into account, maybe have VLC open and ready and have task scheduler press the space bar with autohotkey
- Use a clock.
- You can set up a command line to start VLC using the OS's built in task scheduler.
Happy Moo Year!
- Moogie!!
Why don't I remember this episode?
- Well, are you wearing 18th century garb and using a weak Irish accent? Cause I may have some bad news for you.
- It is not good.*
  *in my personal, but I think pretty uncontroversial, opinion.
  
  I love that episode!
  ... But.... Yeah. It's not good. It's kinda great. But not good.
  
  I used to hate the fairhave episodes but they grew on me, not good but campy
  
  I started remembering bits after reading the synopsis. It's whimsical, Leland.
  
  It is not good.*
  Normal Voyager not good or Threshold not good?
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My man, setting up shop and selling out of stock in less than 11 minutes.
The hero we deserve!
Despicable. I was reliably informed Harry lasted 22 minutes.
Alright. Who actually did this? Time to come clean.
CRON! (William Shatner face)

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