What do you know today, that you did not yesterday?

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swittle Feb 2021 3:35pm, 28 Feb 2021 73,371 posts	0 swittle +2 for timeanddate ^
SteveC NordRunner Feb 2021 3:40pm, 28 Feb 2021 517 posts	0 SteveC NordRunner [My Coros watch shows me solar noon as standard: it was 12:26 today. The twilight before sunrise and after sunset gives me an extra 41 minutes each end, which is useful in these northern latitudes where the sun does not arc so steeply]
Dvorak Feb 2021 3:58pm, 28 Feb 2021 22,058 posts	0 Dvorak [8th January, 2014: Shortcut Cam found out about civil, nautical and astronomical twilights. I think it was a couple of more years before I looked into them in detail. fetcheveryone.com/forum/what-do-you-know-today-that-you-did-not-yesterday-36182/155 ]
rf_fozzy Feb 2021 6:21pm, 28 Feb 2021 13,450 posts	0 rf_fozzy For night orienteering, you cannot start events in open areas until the onset of astronomical twilight. Hence the use of timeanddate regularly here
Forrest Jooligan Feb 2021 11:25pm, 28 Feb 2021 28 posts	0 Forrest Jooligan Laic. A new word that I’ll probably never use 🤣
WtnMel Mar 2021 2:26pm, 2 Mar 2021 2,053 posts	0 WtnMel [FJ - same here .. it came up in the crossword of the weekend paper]
DeeGee Mar 2021 2:31pm, 2 Mar 2021 20,368 posts	0 DeeGee Does it mean "secular", same as the French?
WtnMel Mar 2021 2:33pm, 2 Mar 2021 2,055 posts	0 WtnMel I believe so DeeGee. Mrs WM knew the word .. I just nodded along when she suggested it as the answer to the clue.
rf_fozzy Mar 2021 6:22pm, 2 Mar 2021 13,475 posts	0 rf_fozzy That Donald Trump once did the draw for the Rumbelows cup with Saint and Greavsie. bbc.co.uk And also that Ian Naismith - the writer of the chairman's script for I'm sorry I haven't a clue had died in Febuary.
Cheg Mar 2021 8:05pm, 2 Mar 2021 2,683 posts	0 Cheg Trump gets everywhere. Home Alone, I saw him in another film the other night I forget which.