OK, I have a question: the NASA site gives the times for the eclipse tomorrow in UT, which I assume is Universal Time (and not University of Texas, Utah, or urinary tract). What does that translate to here on Earth? GMT?

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UT is used as a basis for calculating time throughout most of the world. UT is also called Greenwich Time, Greenwich Mean Time, Zulu Time. It is the time along the prime meridian (0 longitude) that runs through the Greenwich Observatory outside of London, UK, where the current system originated.

eta: Of course, anything astronomy-related to the Earth has exceptions:

UT, GMT and UTC can be used interchangeably (*)

*There are three separate definitions, UT0, UT1, and UT2, depending on which corrections have been applied to the Earth's motion. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) also known as Civil Time is kept within 0.9 seconds of UT1, by the addition of leap seconds to International Atomic Time (TAI). TAI is based on atomic clocks. The last leap second added to UTC was on December 31, 1998 at 23:59:60 UTC (the last minute of 1998 had one extra second). There will be no leap second in June 2003 but may be in December 2003, it will not be decided until July 2003! UT, GMT and UTC differ negligibly; therefore, they are used and can be used interchangeably without ill effect.

I bow before your google-fu.

Also, thanks!

I bow before your google-fu.

It has been said that my google-fu is strong....

But really, the google search is always there - you just have to let it tell you what it is.

Also, I am a leaf on the wind....

As far as I can tell, the Wistar Institute is FULL of creepy shit that they only tell us about sometimes.

Also, I feel the need to clarify my "but" wrt the dating life of the Aubrey and Maturin. It was not "the movie was good, but..." It was actually, "I got stuff for my class, but the real thing is..."

But really, the google search is always there

You know, the sad thing is that I think of asking here before typing something into the google search bar.

That's how I read your statement originally, Jesse. And BOY HOWDY did I piss off my neph when I espoused a similar point after seeing the movie with him. Apparently it's just a healthy male friendship.

but I'm worried I'd spend the whole time worried that Mr Darcy will be made.

Heee! My friend K saw that and said it was better than she expected. Not perfect, not as good as the BBC version, but still very good, given the 2-hour time span they had to work with.

Coincidentally, I bought a couple of honeycrisp apples yesterday at the market. The bland-tasting ones someone mentioned earlier must have had their flavor drained into the ones at my store, because I had one for breakfast and holy mother of God, was it tasty.

Huh. I should have some lunch, maybe? I went off to the Boston Knit-Out on the Common with VWBug, and there were far far too many fabulous sweaters and knitted/crocheted objects (that you could touch -- much better than looking at pictures) that I almost went into melt-down.

You know, the sad thing is that I think of asking here before typing something into the google search bar.

That's because someone here will have already looked it up, and sifted through all the dross.