According to the U.S. Naval Observatory, the vernal equinox (beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere; of autumn, on the other side of the equator) takes place at 0007 Universal Time on March 21. That’s 7:07 p.m. MuseBlog time (= United States Central Daylight Time). Europeans, New Zealanders, and residents of other North American time zones will have to figure the local time out for themselves.<\/p>\n
Anyhow, it’s spring on half the planet, and the other half has a nice season to celebrate, too. Rejoice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to the U.S. Naval Observatory, the vernal equinox (beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere; of autumn, on the other side of the equator) takes place at 0007 Universal Time on March 21. That’s 7:07 p.m. MuseBlog time (= United States Central Daylight Time). Europeans, New Zealanders, and residents of other North American time … Continue reading “Happy Spring 2007!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}