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Today is Wednesday, the 9th day of September and the 251st 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 27th day of Elul in the year 5786.
We are under a waning crescent moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 27 days, 7 hours, and 30 minutes. We will be under a new moon again on Friday, September 11th at 9:55 AM. 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
7:00 AM
and
7:31 PM,
giving us 12 hours and 31 minutes of daylight.
There are 13 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 Flavius Honorius (384), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583), Napoleon JKP Bonaparte (1822), Leo Tolstoy (1828), Colonel Sanders (1890), Cliff Robertson (1925), Otis Redding (1941), Billy Preston (1946), Michael Keaton (1951), Angela Cartwright (1952), Hugh Grant (1960), Adam Sandler (1966), Deion Sanders (1967), and Michelle Williams (1980).
On this day in 1947, a moth lodged in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University, causing faulty output. The term "bug" thus took its place in digital vernacular. When Dr. Grace Hopper opened the relay cover and discovered the moth, she immediately adhered it to a strip of cellophane tape and recorded the event in the computer log and stuck the tape in the appropriate chronological position. That page from the log, complete with the moth, is on permanent display at the Smithsonian.
If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy, born Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy,
on this day in 1828 in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia
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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