http://sfist.com/2007/03/22/a_day_after_the_first_day_of_spring.php All comments for A Day After the First Day of Spring en-us 2009 SFist_Brock Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:09:24 -0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss brochtrup@gmail.com brochtrup@gmail.com 60 http://sfist.com/2007/03/22/a_day_after_the_first_day_of_spring.php#comment-1050648 http://sfist.com/2007/03/22/a_day_after_the_first_day_of_spring.php#comment-1050648 Comments Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:52:06 -0800 <p>You Goofed! The first day of Spring this year ocurred at March 20, 2007 at 8:07 p.m. EDT. It isn't a calendar event (i.e., it isn't always the 21st) but a celestial one (the point at which the sun is exactly perpindicular to the earth's axis of rotation (or parallel to the earth's plane of rotation.)</p> http://sfist.com/2007/03/22/a_day_after_the_first_day_of_spring.php#comment-1046048 http://sfist.com/2007/03/22/a_day_after_the_first_day_of_spring.php#comment-1046048 Comments Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:34:53 -0800 <p>Tchaikovsky's "Rites of Spring?" Haven't heard it.</p>