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Today is Sunday, the 27th day of September and the 269th 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 16th day of Tishri in the year 5787.
We are under a full moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 16 days, 6 hours, and 39 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
7:10 AM
and
7:07 PM,
giving us 11 hours and 57 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 Cosimo de Medici (1389), Louis XIII (1601), Samuel Adams (1722), Louis Botha (1862), William Conrad (1920), Arthur Penn (1922), Jayne Meadows (1926), Patrick O'Neal (1927), Wilford Brimley (1934), Greg Morris (1934), Kathy Whitworth (1939), Meat Loaf (1947), Cheryl Tiegs (1947), Mike Schmidt (1949), Shaun Cassidy (1958), Stephan Jenkins (1964), Gwyneth Paltrow (1972), and Avril Lavigne (1984).
On this day in 1822, Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered the Rosetta stone, inscribed in Ancient Greek, Demotic script, and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Today's timely quote from the past:
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
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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