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Today is Saturday, the 22nd day of August and the 233rd day of 2026. Most of the United States is under 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.
On the Jewish calendar, today is the 9th day of Elul in the year 5786.
We are under a waxing crescent moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 9 days, 19 hours, and 13 minutes. We will be under a new moon again on Friday, September 11th at 9:55 AM. The next full moon will occur on Thursday, August 27th at 3:33 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
For today, our sunrise and sunset times (at -96.852/32.847) are
6:49 AM
and
7:53 PM,
giving us 13 hours and 4 minutes of daylight.
There are 31 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.
On this day in 2003, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the court building.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Claude Debussy (1862), Dorothy Parker* (1893), 1902 Leni Riefenstahl (1902), Deng Xiaoping (1904), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), John Lee Hooker (1917), Ray Bradbury (1920), Norman Schwarzkopf (1934), Carl Yastrzemski (1939), Valerie Harper (1940), Cindy Williams (1947), Mark Williams (1959), Tori Amos (1963), Ty Burrell (1967), Layne Staley (1967), Giada De Laurentiis (1970), Richard Armitage (1971), Howie Dorough (1973), and Kristen Wiig (1973).
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* We celebrate Ms. Parker's birthday with her quote below.
Today's quick response:
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) when asked to use the word horticulture
during a game of Can-You-Give-Me-A-Sentence?
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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