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Today is Friday, the 18th day of September and the 260th 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 7th day of Tishri in the year 5787.
We are under a first quarter moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 6 days, 17 hours, and 24 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
7:05 AM
and
7:19 PM,
giving us 12 hours and 14 minutes of daylight.
There are 4 days until the end of summer, marked by the 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 7:05 pm Central Daylight Time on Sunday, September 23rd.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Johann Gottfried Walther (1684), Samuel Johnson (1709), Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (1905), Greta Garbo (1905), June Foray (1920), Jack Warden (1920), Roman Polanski (1933), Jimmie Rodgers (1933), Robert Blake (1933), Frankie Avalon (1940), Dr. Ben Carson (1951), James Gandolfini (1961), Lance Armstrong (1971), and Jada Pinkett Smith (1971).
On this day in 1927, CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) went on the air.
Today's insight and wisdom:
Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Maxim 62
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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