why does every outdoor show in my town have to end at 9:58pm sharp

cutting off half a Taylor Swift cover is probably the most merciful thing the noise ordinance has ever done no offense to Tyler. and the 9:58 thing is almost certainly because the ordinance says 10pm and the city wont trust a cell phone clock. my old Seiko is never off by more than a few seconds a week, so if they asked me i could tell them exactly when 10 actually is

fwiw your phone is the more accurate clock there. ngl it syncs to carrier/network time and is usually well under a second off. honestly a quartz Seiko drifting a few seconds a week is fine for a watch but it's losing that contest https://time.gov

the 2 minutes is probably just padding so the last song actually ends before 10 and nobody gets cited over a long outro. permits usually say amplified sound has to stop *by*

wow datawrangler92 just casually has a QUARTZ SEIKO lying around, must be nice 🙄⌚ some of us are out here using a microwave clock that's been wrong since 2019 and ok the 2 min padding thing makes sense but i'm still mad about it lol 😤🚀