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Good afternoon. This website is a demonstration of smart content rendering. The content updates continuously without the help of Internet monkeys. All the information was current at the time you arrived here. Today is Saturday, the 13th day of June and the 163rd day of 2026. Most of the United States is under Daylight Saving Time (DST) at the moment. It will end on November 1st at 2:00 AM when clocks "fall back" one hour. While many countries observe DST, the beginning and ending times vary, as with the Sun as we see it, of course.
On the Jewish calendar, today is the 28th day of Sivan in the year 5786.
We are approaching a new moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 28 days, 5 hours, and 12 minutes. We will be under a new moon again on Sunday, June 14th at 7:43 PM. The next full moon will occur on Monday, June 29th at 2:05 PM. For now, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter are visible in the night sky. Mercury can be seen in the eastern sky just before dawn. Looking into the night sky, far beyond our Lunar and Solar System neighbors, we see that We are under the sign of Gemini.
For today, our sunrise and sunset times (at -96.852/32.847) are
6:13 AM
and
8:24 PM,
giving us 14 hours and 11 minutes of daylight.
On this day in 1970, "The Long and Winding Road" became The Beatles' last U.S. number one song.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of James C. Maxwell (1831), William Butler Yeats (1865), Ma Ferguson (1875), Doc Cheatham (1905), Ralph Edwards (1913), Paul Lynde (1926), John Forbes Nash (1928), Christo (1935), Siegfried Fischbacher (1939), Malcolm McDowell (1943), Richard Thomas (1951), Tim Allen (1953), Ally Sheedy (1962), and Jamie Walters (1969).
Today in History: Leaving Our Solar System
On this day in 1983, Pioneer 10 passed outside Pluto's orbit and became the first man-made object to leave the solar system. Designed for deep-space exploration, and launched March 2, 1972, the spacecraft passed safely through the asteroid belt (no small accomplishment considering some of the asteroids are the size of Alaska), took the first close-up pictures of Jupiter in 1973, and sent back data about the solar wind in the far reaches of our solar system. The mission--which was originally expected to last only 21 months--was officially ended in 1997, after 25 years, although NASA's Deep Space Network continued to pick up signals for several more years. Pioneer 10 sent its last, faint communication back home in January 2003.
Even though its communications system is no longer operational, Pioneer 10 continues on its way to Aldebaran, the star that forms the eye of the constellation Taurus; it should make it there in about two million years, give or take, according to NASA. (Source: The Writer's Almanac)
While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.
Tim Allen, born on this day 73 years ago in Denver, Colorado
The Technology
This site is a working demonstration of on-demand PHP scripting. The code tightly integrates computed and imported data with text, spewing forth natural-sounding narrative output with flawless grammar and syntax. The birthdays, history section and the text below--which all change daily--are from an in-house database. Raw data used in the financial and weather sections is imported at page generation time. All the other data, particularly the celestial stuff, is derived and rendered by several hundred lines of code at the time the page is generated at the Linux/Apache server.
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