The equinox is Tuesday afternoon at 3:18 PM MDT. That’s 5:18 Eastern, 4:18 Central and 1:18 Pacific. (One can only guess what time it will be in Arizona.)
Be sure to stock up on pagan party supplies.
8 thoughts on “Equinox”
Comments are closed.
The equinox is Tuesday afternoon at 3:18 PM MDT. That’s 5:18 Eastern, 4:18 Central and 1:18 Pacific. (One can only guess what time it will be in Arizona.)
Be sure to stock up on pagan party supplies.
Comments are closed.
That would be 1:18 Arizona time. Of course the year is still 1912…
Excuse me, but 3:18 PM MDT would be 2:18 PM PDT, which is the same as Mountain Standard time.
However Ken B got the calendar part of the question right.
Typing error. Just the fault of a finger, no fault of the mind.
Actually, does it happen instantaneously, or like sunrise, in effect move around the earth and happen at about the same local time in each time zone?
Modern technology has reduced the meaning of the word ‘equinox’ from one day to one instant. Newton would understand.
See:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html
Michelle, the astronomical equinox is the precise moment twice each year when the sun passes directly over the plane of the equator. It happens without regard to the rotation of the Earth (time zones).
You already told us what time it will be in Arizona.
It will be 3:18 pm MDT.
The equinox indeed is at 3:18 PM tomorrow (Tuesday, September 22, 2009) MDT. However, except for the Navajo Nation, Arizona does not observe daylight saving time.
As my brother wrote in comment 2, in Arizona (except for the Navajo Nation) it will be 2:18 PM Mountain Standard Time when the sun appears directly above the equatorial plane.