Today's Forecast: Five-Ninths Daylight

I read in the paper that today, where I live in northern California, there will be 13 hours and 20 minutes of daylight. (And 10 hours and 40 minutes of darkness.)

Intriguing numbers I thought. It turns out that 13:20:00 is exactly five-ninths of a 24 hour day.  That means that 5/9 of today will be light, and 4/9 be dark. That's a nice comfortable balance especially in April.

I'll get to experience 5/9 daylight again in late August, but it will feel a lot hotter then.

Comments

[Curtis Dumonceaux]

The only use I know of for 5/9 is to convert degrees fahrenheit to degrees celsius. It is interesting that dividing 2 odd numbers gives the same repeating odd number, which is the numerator of the fraction! (Same for 1 but not 3 or 7)

[Roger von Oech]

Well, Curtis, I can see you've got your numerical thinking cap on today.

[Luis]

I can't wait for those five-ninths to get down here to Mexico!

Hope you guys up there can make it to the 4/7 of daylight or why not to a beautiful 3/5 soon!