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Today is Monday, the 5th day of October and the 277th day of 2026. Most of the contiguous United States is observing 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 dates and times vary, so as to add another layer of confusion to the scheme. Dates and times on this site are for the Central Time Zone in the United States.
On the Jewish calendar, today is the 24th day of Tishri in the year 5787.
We are under a waning crescent moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 24 days, 6 hours, and 41 minutes. We will be under a new moon again on Saturday, October 10th at 10:40 PM. The next full moon will occur on Sunday, October 25th at 5:02 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 Solar System neighbors, we see that we are under the sign of Libra.
For today, our sunrise and sunset times (at -96.852/32.847) are
7:16 AM
and
6:57 PM,
giving us 11 hours and 41 minutes of daylight.
We are in the 12th day of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. Summer has ended, but not the hot weather. The autumnal equinox, which occurred on September 23rd, marked the end of summer. On the day of the equinox, the sun could be observed to be directly above the equator, and the night and day were the same length. The actual crossing of the sun over the equator takes approximately two and a half days. The equinox occurs halfway through the transit when the center of the sun is directly over the equator. Winter will begin on December 21st when our days begin to grow longer. It's weird, but longer periods of sunlight is when our weather becomes colder... more details as we get closer to the date.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Paul Fleming (1609), Chester A. Arthur (1829), Larry Fine (1902), Ray Kroc (1902), Allen Ludden (1917), Donald Pleasence (1919), Glynis Johns (1923), Karen Allen (1951), Bob Geldof (1954), Bernie Mac (1957), Mario Lemieux (1965), Patrick Roy (1965), Guy Pearce (1967), Grant Hill (1972), Kate Winslet (1975), Paul Thomas (1980), and Nikki Hilton (1983).
On this day in 1921, the World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time.
The quotes here change daily. In most cases, they show up on the author's birthday. There are cases, like today, when a single pithy quote just flat doesn't cut it. Today we offer a small sampling of legendary entrepreneur Ray Kroc's unbounded insight and wisdom.
• The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
•Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
•If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
•The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
•You're only as good as the people you hire.
•As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.
Ray Kroc, born on this day 124 years ago in Oak Park, Illinois.
The Technology
This site is a working demonstration of on-demand PHP scripting. The code tightly integrates computed data with text, spewing forth natural-sounding narrative output with flawless grammar and syntax. The narrative sections--which all change daily--are from an in-house database. The real time data is derived [and rendered] primarily by PHP code at the time the output is generated at the Linux/Apache server.
About the fruitfly: Whether the fruitfly in the margin entertains or annoys, it serves a very real and useful purpose. The fly uses recently developed sentinelware. In short, the image is generated by the output of many, many active server monitoring processes. When abnormal server activity is detected by the "fly system," the fly's appearance deviates from the default, and a system exception raises a flag that is immediately addressed by the humans who monitor the server via the fruitfly's movements and morphology. Until fairly recently, server issues weren't always obvious, and if so, isolating and mending them was an arduous exercise. The fruitfly technology has made the plight of the server technician much more bearable. If the fruitfly annoys you, click in the center of the lens flare to swat it.
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