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Today is Wednesday, the 7th day of October and the 279th 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 26th day of Tishri in the year 5787.
We are under a waning crescent moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 26 days, 7 hours, and 10 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
7:17 AM
and
6:54 PM,
giving us 11 hours and 37 minutes of daylight.
We are in the 14th 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 John Marston (1576), Niels Bohr (1885), Heinrich Himmler* (1900), Louis Leakey (1903), Andy Devine (1905), Vaughn Monroe (1911), June Allyson (1917), R.D. Laing (1927), Bishop Desmond Tutu (1931), LeRoi Jones (1934), Oliver North (1943), John Cougar Mellencamp (1951), Vladimir Putin (1952), Yo-Yo Ma (1955), Michael W. Smith (1957), Simon Cowell (1959), Toni Braxton (1968), Thom Yorke (1968), Taylor Hicks (1976), Rachel McAdams (1976), and Shawn Ashmore (1979).
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* This entry appears here only as a matter of historical record.
On this day in 1919, KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, was founded. Today, it's the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy.
Oliver North, born on this day 83 years ago in San Antonio, Texas
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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