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day
A day is the time period of a full rotation of the Earth with respect to the Sun. On average, this is 24 hours (86,400 seconds). As a day passes at a given location it experiences morning, noon, afternoon, evening, and night. This daily cycle drives circadian rhythms in many organisms, which are vital to many life processes.
A collection of sequential days is organized into calendars as dates, almost always into weeks, months and years. A solar calendar organizes dates based on the Sun's annual cycle, giving consistent start dates for the four seasons from year to year. A lunar calendar organizes dates based on the Moon's lunar phase.
In common usage, a day starts at midnight, written as 00:00 or 12:00 am in 24- or 12-hour clocks, respectively. Because the time of midnight varies between locations, time zones are set up to facilitate the use of a uniform standard time. Other conventions are sometimes used, for example the Jewish religious calendar counts days from sunset to sunset, so the Jewish Sabbath begins at sundown on Friday. In astronomy, a day begins at noon so that observations throughout a single night are recorded as happening on the same day.
In specific applications, the definition of a day is slightly modified, such as in the SI day (exactly 86,400 seconds) used for computers and standards keeping, local mean time accounting of the Earth's natural fluctuation of a solar day, and stellar day and sidereal day (using the celestial sphere) used for astronomy. In most countries outside of the tropics, daylight saving time is practiced, and each year there will be one 23-hour civil day and one 25-hour civil day. Due to slight variations in the rotation of the Earth, there are rare times when a leap second will get inserted at the end of a UTC day, and so while almost all days have a duration of 86,400 seconds, there are these exceptional cases of a day with 86,401 seconds (in the half-century spanning 1972 through 2022, there have been a total of 27 leap seconds that have been inserted, so roughly once every other year).
I just wanted to wish all of you filthy savages a very happy national bacon day!
Godspeed to you all and please pass the bacon!
WOLVERINES! :D
p.s.
Not to be confused with INTERNATIONAL Bacon Day which is Aug 31st.
https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/bacon-day-december-30
I traded a local guy a GSG MP40 for a Walther PPQ M2 9mm on Tuesday. Due to our Governor Smokeapolis, we now have to wait 3 days to pick up our guns. So, I got it yesterday! In my eyes, not only was it robbery charging me 40.50 to do it, it's flat out harassment from the government. I'll be glad...
Flags are at half-staff around me today. Did a little research and discovered that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor passed away last Friday. Remarkable woman...
She held that the GFZ Act was unconstitutional. She knew what she was talking about...
Requiescat in pace...
This format is workin really well on eBay! Give it a try!! FYI- I always throw in an extra design or size variation to Each item ordered, so figure in 2 for the price!
Custom Scope Throw Levers made with glass filled nylon. This material is super strong, able to flex and is not heat...
Today, Mrs. Merkt was doing her volunteer work thing. So I headed north to visit gun shops. It was a clear, cool, sunny day with a beautiful blue sky. The birds were taking full advantage of it. Going north on I-5, I saw some of the biggest flocks of geese heading south that I'd ever seen...
Will people ever figure out it's the criminals and their actions that are the problem, not the tools they use?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11389657/amp/Met-Police-respond-13-405-knife-crimes-Lawless-London-12-months-safe-suburb.html
Nov. 11, seems like it comes around real fast now, year to year.
This year, I was asked by my granddaughter to speak to an assembly at her high school. Which I agreed to. She gave me a list of speaking topics and told me I had seven minutes. I can be a pretty chatty guy, so seven minutes...