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Today is Tuesday, the 15th day of September and the 257th 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 4th day of Tishri in the year 5787.
We are under a waxing crescent moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 3 days, 17 hours, and 19 minutes. We will be under a new moon again on Saturday, October 10th at 10:40 PM. The next full moon will occur on Saturday, September 26th at 4:17 AM. 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 Virgo.
For today, our sunrise and sunset times (at -96.852/32.847) are
7:03 AM
and
7:23 PM,
giving us 12 hours and 20 minutes of daylight.
There are 7 days until the end of summer, marked by the Vernal, or Autumnal, Equinox. On the day of the Equinox, the sun can be observed to be directly above the equator, and the night and day are 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. This year, the exact crossing time will be 9:51 am Greenwich Mean Time on Sunday, September 23rd.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Marco Polo (1250), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), James Fenimore Cooper (1789), Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov (1828), William H. Taft (1857), Frank E. Gannett (1876), Robert Benchley (1889), Agatha Christie (1890), Jean Renoir (1894), Milton S. Eisenhower (1899), Roy Acuff (1903), Fay Wray (1907), Jackie Cooper (1922), Forrest Compton (1925), Gaylord Perry (1938), Merlin Olsen (1940), Jessye Norman (1945), Tommy Lee Jones (1946), Oliver Stone (1946), Dan Marino (1961), Danny Nucci (1968), Rich Robertson (1968), and Prince Harry (1984).
On this day in 1947, RCA released the 12AX7 vacuum tube, intended primarily for use in professional audio equipment. To date, solid state technology has not produced a suitable replacement for the 12AX7 tube. About two million of the tubes are manufactured annually, with Russia being the largest producer.
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
François de la Rochefoucauld, born on this day 413 years ago in Paris
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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