Posted on 03/20/2020 9:57:01 AM PDT by RideForever
Good one!
Not Half Bad Friday.
Better Than Okay Day
Good Friday for Dummies
Good Enough Friday
It’s the first day of spring, not Good Friday.
Good Friday fell on March 21 in 2008. It won’t come any earlier than March 22 any time in the remainder of this century.
I don't know if the PC police have attacked anyone yet for being "cishemispheric" but give them time.
No doubt it’ll happen.
First day of Spring (equinox) was yesterday not today.
We had an, “extra” day for leap year so...Time warp.
On a happy note, President Trump had an extra day as president!
Forgot about the Leap Year.
I’m praying for the mercy of God to give us four more years of him come Nov.
So, I’m backing up a little. The equinox (when the sun is over the equator) occurred at 11:49 pm Eastern Daylight Savings time 3/19/2020.
It was officially the first day of astronomical spring for all the US time zones, being as how it happened before midnight. (I won’t fudge the fact that it would have been an hour and 11 minutes if we were on Eastern standard time.)
In any case, at the international dateline it would have been 3/20/2020 at 11:49 am so our Aussie freeps are having their first partial day of Spring today and we are having our first full day of Spring.
My head hurts.
Well, today felt like spring.
Tomorrow, not so much but it’s forecast to be short lived.
The extra day this year was actually February 25th. In the Roman calendar, February 24th was called "the sixth day before the Kalends of March." In leap year they inserted the extra day at that point and called it "the second sixth day before the Kalends of March" (ante diem bis VI. Kal. Mart.), from which we get the term "bissextile" referring to a leap year.
Thanks for the reminder of how much God loves us, even if it’s not Good Friday yet.
God Bless!
Who are you calling bisextile?)
The second S is important.
Bis plus sex plus tile.
Bis means "twice." Sex is Latin for "six." Tile is something that goes on roofs.
Oh for Italy? Forget it!
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