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Today is Tuesday, the 3rd day of November and the 306th 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 23rd day of Heshvan in the year 5787.
We are under a last quarter moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 23 days, 13 hours, and 23 minutes. We will be under a new moon again on Monday, November 9th at 10:24 AM. The next full moon will occur on Tuesday, November 24th at 4:46 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 Scorpio
for today, our sunrise and sunset times (at -96.852/32.847) are
6:37 AM
and
5:26 PM,
giving us 10 hours and 49 minutes of daylight.
We are in the 41th 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 Edward V (1470), Daniel Rutherford (1749), Stephen F. Austin (1793), Edward Douglass White (1845), André Malraux (1901), Charles Bronson (1921), Ken Berry (1933), Jeremy Brett (1933), Michael Dukakis (1933), Roseanne (1952), Kate Capshaw (1953), Dennis Miller (1953), Adam Ant (1954), Godzilla (1954), Dolph Lundgren (1959), Timothy Patrick Murphy (1959), Gabe Newell (1962), Shaye Lucas (1978), and Gemma Ward (1987).
Today in History: "Dewey Defeats Truman"
It was on this date that what is perhaps the biggest newspaper faux pas of all time showed up as the lead story when the Chicago Tribune's headline on November 3, 1948 proclaimed, "Dewey Defeats Truman."
The error has been attributed to flawed polling and printing technology that required the paper to be put to bed well in advance of the publication time, and that's most certainly the case, but the rest of the story is that the people at the Tribune and Truman didn't share much in common. The editorial people at the Tribune had once called Truman a "nincompoop," but Truman had a few choice things to say about them as well. While Truman's straight approach to all things Presidential alienated many, there were enough in the "Give 'em hell, Harry" corner to re-elect him. Today's quotes at the bottom of the page are prime examples of Truman's wit and candor.
• I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
• I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
Harry S Truman
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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