Well, would you look at this? The fine folks at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art paid tribute to November 11th, 2011 with a personification of today's Yahtzee-esque date and time. Via their Facebook page, SFMOMA notes: "Happy Veterans Day, Happy Birthday to abstract expressionist and surrealist painter Roberto Matta (who was born 100 years ago today), and happy 11/11/11 at 11:11am from SFMOMA!"

The last time earthlings cared this much about a snake-eyes date was back in 1911. Here's how NYT (via Gawker) marked today 100 years ago.

To-day it is possible to write the date with the repetition six times of a single digit. It is the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year, and so one may save time and just put it down 11-11-11. It will be a century before the same thing can be done on Nov. 11, 2011, though, of course, on Dec. 12 next year there wil be a close approximation to it with 12-12-12 as a correct presentation of the date.

Still to-day for the last time until the era is changed will one digit appear seven times in the date, however it be written. To-day is 11-11-1911. Eight hundred years ago this was beaten by writing 11-11-1111, on Nov. 11, 1111, but it is not likely that the precise monkish scribes at the time would have allowed so slovenly a method of recording an essential fact. As none of us is likely to be living in the year 11111, it would be well for those who delight in curious trifles to take their fill of enjoyment out of this method of dating to-day, 11-11-11.

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Soon! But not until after Halloween. In two about weeks, to be exact. But why, you might be asking yourself, do we fall back? Well: "The notion of shifting clocks to better take advantage of the sunlight goes back to Benjamin Franklin, but it didn't become a federal law (though not all states need to comply) until World War I," notes our sister site, LAist. "The government has tinkered here and there with when we turn the clocks ahead or back an hour, most recently in 2007, when we entered DST earlier as part of a plan to conserve energy."

Have no fear, though, as your iPhone (or your smartphone derivative of choice) will reset themselves automatically. Your microwave, however, will need a manual adjustment.

Also, as LAist goes on to point out: "You might call it Daylight Savings Time, but it's technically called Daylight Saving Time."

Regarding his Fazio-free residency case, Ed Jew's attorney Stuart Hanlon came to court minus one Mr. Jew today. According the SF Examiner, Hanlon told reporters that "Mr. Jew is not here today...he’s confident. He's working in his flower shop. He’s confident, I’m confident...[b]ut I need more time to get ready." This begs the questions, does he also have confidence in sunshine? Does he have confidence in rain?

Also, Ed's working at his flower shop now? Huh. Cool. And good for him. Although we do hope he's able to adequately water the begonia and gardenias during this frosty time of year. And a hundred gold stars goes to any SFist reader who manages to snap an image of the old Jewster putting together a lovely holiday-themed bouquet.

Image credit: Susan Atkins