ah ha from Baja

January 31, 2024. Sunset tonight 5:16 PM; Baja California

c/o my friends Glenn and Nira
– Joe P

far and near

January 24, 2024. Sunset 6:03 PM. Naples FL

"sunset today c/o my sister Cindy"
– Joe P

almost there...

January 22, 2024. Sunset 5:21 PM. Berkeley, CA.

"Sunset is coming. Indian Rock in North Berkeley"- KB

is there a sick gopher out there somewhere?

January 9, 2024. Sunset 5:08 PM. San Francisco, CA.

Well. Here's that little mushroom- one week later-- I can't tell if it's all dried up or if some poor creature came along and ate it.

slice of paradise

January 7, 2024. Sunrise 6:24 AM.

“Sunrise yesterday…Caye Caulker, Belize…from my daughter Cora honeymooning there”.
- Joe P
Hi Joe--OOoooooo Lovely! Norman and I were here for the first part of our honeymoon 27 years ago!!!! it still looks like paradise

gopher food?

January 2, 2024. Sunset 5:02 PM. San Francisco, CA.

Running late this evening! Joined by this little fellow who has grown quite a bit in these past few days-- We'll keep an eye out-- Anyone know anything about mushrooms????

Happy New Year- NOT

January 1, 2024 Midnight What started as the usual- head outside at midnight to listen to the change as we cross over the time line from one year to the next- transformed from celebration to anguish and anger. I didn’t realize this protest was planned this was what I saw and heard at midnight: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/12/26/18861396.php

early start across the Atlantic

January 1, 2024. Sunrise 7:07 AM.

“First sunrise of 2024 Ft. Lauderdale, FL from my friend Van.” – Joe P

Song A Day for a Month New Year's Offering by Alex Wand

January 1, 2024. Sunrise 6:58 AM. Los Angeles, CA.

“Happy new year! I just did another dailybell ringing at sunrise, new years day. Made a little song about it too ”
Happy sadfam, everyone!

Here's the sadfam records bandcamp
Thanks for subscribing! We'll start releasing a few albums and singles in the next month or two.
Hope you're having a great start to the new year, Brenda!
Best,
Alex

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Crumbled rock and petroglyphs,
We kept the law but forgot the myth,
So we stare into the dark with no candles lit,

Until the sun comes up over the horizon
The sun over the horizon brings in
A wondrous new year, light of all lights
And bells of brass and silver are ringing when the
The sun comes up over the horizon.

The story goes that the water split,
And the darkest night was the greatest gift,
But somewhere along the line, we went adrift.

Still every year,

The sun comes up over the horizon
The sun over the horizon brings in
A wondrous new year, light of all lights
And bells of brass and silver are ringing when
The sun comes up over the horizon.

And this morning Jessica and I were ringing our bells right at sunrise, 7 am.

-Alex Wand

With hope and love as the new year dawns.

January 1, 2024
Happy New Year!

My friend Tina has sustained a quiet and still practice of being with the morning as it stirs. I love this series, and Tina has graciously allowed me to share it--
With hope and love as the new year dawns
- Brenda

from Tina-
Sending you dark-to-light time greetings and love.
Here are some sunrises from my homelands, where I was from August until Dec 15. Every morning I did a pre-dawn walk along the lake (Rainy Lake), sometimes taking photos of the sunrise.
These are from some mornings November and December when I had either my cell phone or small Canon or both. I always thought of you and imagined bells across the lands.
Sorry no sounds, just listening

Last sunset of 2023

December 31, 2023. Sunset 5:00 PM. San Francisco, CA.
More views of the last sunset of 2023...
this one from Lynne Piade
Thanks for this sliver of sunset and a glimpse of your captive, but growing audience there on your windowsill

Tracking the last sunset of the year from the East Bay to the sea-

Happy New Year! As the World Turns

Thank you Rae from what looks like the East Bay hills and Thea from East Richmond through downtown SF with Lynne P to 14 blocks from the Pacific Ocean with Norman Matt and Kiki.
Wishing everyone a brighter, better tomorrow.

December 31, 2023. Sunset 4:59 PM. Albany, CA.

"almost sunset on the last day of 2023...”wishing you a happy, healthy 2024, Brenda. I am so grateful for you and for our friendship"
Rae D--
Thank you Rae for this last glimpse of the turn away from the sun for 2023. Happy New Year!

December 31, 2023. Sunset 4:59 PM. East Richmond, CA.

"happy new year from the Richmond Hills!"
-Thea F

December 31, 2023. Sunset 5:00 PM. San Francisco, CA.

More views of the last sunset of 2023...
-Lynne

Thanks for this sliver of sunset and a glimpse of your captive, but growing audience there, Lynne

December 31, 2023. Sunset 5:01 PM. San Francisco, CA.

Matt and Kiki join Norman and I for the last sunset of the year 14 blocks from the end of the continental US.
Amen.

COMING SOON

I'm catching up with the older missing posts- please check back in a few days if you are curious

No Photo- HOORAY!!!

December 29, 2023. Sunset 4:59 PM. San Francisco, CA.
Thank you Mardi and Matt (and Kiki) and Tony-- This is a first and very exciting moment for the dailybell.

Big sunset moment. No photo available!!! HOORAY!

Anyone who has been following over the years will be familiar with Mardi, Matt (and his dog, Kiki) and Tony-- So I leave it to your imagination to picture them together in some configuration around the bell among the weeds and near the tree and the red truck ringing together.

This evening was the first time (that I know of) in the almost 16 years of ringing along with the sun(rise) and set that people gathered and rang the bell that's now set in stone (well, cement) in front of our house-- when we weren't there.

elevator tickets for the sunset(s)???

December 26, 2023. Sunset 5:36 PM. Burj Khalifa- Dubai.

The ticket says it's good for 2 sunsets. Which one are we not looking at???

"Not quite sunset"
- Joe P.
OK-- Here's the explanation!!
check here for floor plan We were 125 stories high in that pic (but that’s not really the top) That same link sort of explains the 2 sunsets…see the Ramadan Observance section:

On the higher floors, the sun is seen for several minutes after it has set at ground level. Those living above the 80th floor should wait two extra minutes to break their Ramadan fast, and those living above the 150th floor should wait three minutes.

The sun sets 2 minutes later at the top and the elevator is really fast so you can watch the sunset on the ground then take the elevator to the top and watch it again.

is that Santa on a surfboard?

December 24, 2023. Sunset 4:55 PM. Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA.

"Happy Christmas Eve!"
from Elisabeth and Richard

Solstice simultaneities

December 21, 2023. Sunset 4:54 PM. San Francisco, CA.

December 21, 2023. Sunset 4:54 PM. Albany Bulb, CA.

Such a serene and patient journey into the sunset of the shortest day of the year. Thank you, Joann for this slow and peaceful moment. I love how the glow is gradually replaced by the glitter!
JoAnn

several hours plus a couple of hours-- how long was that?

December 20, 20223. Sunset 5:34 PM. Chandul, India.

“Sunset(ish) today in Chandul, India while driving from Kolkata to Asansol. We drove several hours from Kolkata to Asansol and again a couple hours from the Daltonganj train station to Ramanujganj, but Always had a driver thank god”
- Joe P

Same time. Same sky.

December 17, 2023. Sunset 4:52 PM.
Thea by the Bay Elisabeth in town. Are we looking at the same cloud formations????

Emeryville, SF BAY. "Emeryville Marina now." -Thea

San Francisco, CA. "Pretty spectacular! Happy to be back in SF as of noon today. Here through the end of the year".
-Elisabeth Beaird

probably pretty everywhere

December 13, 2023. Sunset 4:50 PM. Albany, CA.

"Sunset from Indian Rock. Hope it's pretty there, too "
- Krys
(looking West over the San Francisco Bay. You can see both the Bay and the Golden Gate bridges)!

still covid careful around here

December 10, 2023. Sunset 5:50 PM. San Francisco, CA.

Even under the weather, Tony pops down from next door to join us at sunset-- standing apart from our returned friends, Elisabeth and Richard who arrived just in time-- bearing their own bells and noisemakers (as usual)-

We’re still riding the earliest sunset for a few more days—The turnaround is imminent…

doesn't look real

December 8, 2023. Sunset 5:38 PM. Key West, FL.

"From my cousin Roseanne… Key West sunset yesterday"
- Joe Pofrifka
wow - lucky cousin!

good sounding marathon

December 6, 2023. Sunset 4:42 PM. San Mateo, CA.

Taking a break from the daylong setup for our final Electronic Music concert at College of San Mateo-- All student composed, performed and produced-- it's a marathon and sounding really good! The concert was on Dec 7th at 7:00 PM, and it was amazing—Congratulations everyone!

sunset bottoms out!

November 30, 2023. Sunrise 7:05 AM. Sunset 4:51 PM
This whole month slipped by without a single recording of the daily events. So here are both the sunrise and sunset for the last day of November.

We are beginning to really slow down as far as the amount of light we are still losing each day. In fact, beginning tomorrow, Dec 1, we will hit the first of a string of the absolute earliest sunset for the year.

YES—for the next 11 days, the sun will set at 4:50 PM before lingering for 30 seconds per day as the end of the day opens up. Sadly the sun will continue to rise later each day well into January. Miraculously, the Solstice will still end up being the shortest day—something to look forward to.

Setting time is determined by values aligned with power on Earth, not the sun

Q: What time is it?
A: It depends on when and who you ask(ed)

Prior to the need to coordinate time over vast distances, I imagine that people generally used local needs and criteria for knowing the time. Perhaps the sun directly overhead was a good enough reference to communicate with others in the immediate community, relying more on relative time than an absolute fixed number.

The standardization of time as we have come to know it, is a relatively recent enactment and was brought forward by the railroads in the 1800's. The necessity to coordinate schedules of moving parts over distances seemed to be a reasonable impetus for standardizing time. Yet who chose the reference point? The governments of Great Britain, a once colonial power and the United States, a rising economic power in the world, agreed on GMT. What about everyone else in the world?

India objected. To this day has a single time zone for the entire continent- splitting the difference between what would have been different 2 time zones into a single time zone that was offset by 1/2 hour. If you check to see what time it is in India, it will be offset from UTC (GMT) by 5:30 standard daylight time.

China also objected and adopted a single time zone for the entire country. Unlike India where it was a simple matter to split the difference between 2 times zone, China had to choose a reference for the standard. How to choose-- Geographical- select a place in the center of China's landmass? Or Beijing, the capital and the seat of power, which is located in the east.

And now here we are again: Nobody likes changing the clocks but who decides whether or not we stay with standard time all year or daylight savings time all year.

The absurdly named Sunshine Protection Act, is the bi partisan Senate proposal which favors keeping daylight savings time all year. As if keeping the clock set an hour ahead actually accomplishes an extension of the sunlight. Obviously, all it really does is shift the fixed amount of light available away from the morning into the evening. So instead of the sunrise occurring at 7:30 AM (in this latitude, at least), it will cross the horizon at 8:30 AM. The trade off is beginning our days in the dimness of winter instead of ending them there at the close of the day.

As states are weighing in with their preferences for maintaining Standard or Daylight Savings time, we have yet another opportunity to get nasty and dig in.

This issue is so trivial compared to all the hatred, fighting and suffering happening right now all over the world. However, the reaction to fight for one's position with enmity is not trivial. Yet, here we are. For now, with regard to Standard Time/Daylight Savings time, we will all (except for AZ and HI) move the hands of our clocks around-

An act of cooperation and agreement, for the moment.