skyhooks > wrote in
:

> Andy wrote:
>>
>> I hate Standard Time. The sun set at 4:45.
>>
>> The BITCH!!!
>>
>> Andy
>
> I know, I know! And it only gets worse before it starts to get
> better on or about December 21, 2006 when the days start to get
> longer again.

It's actually the winter solstice. Used to be December 11 in the old
calendar of Numa Pompilius, the day of Sol Indigetis, until a pope
adjusted the calendar by 11 days, making Saturnalia (December 14) fall
on December 25. I was born 8 hours after the solstice.

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"There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in."

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