Tomorrow is NOT the first day of summer.
Tomorrow is the middle of summer, which began 45 days ago, and will end 45 days from tomorrow (amounting to 91 days per season, and 4 seasons totalling 364 days, which is Good Enough For Government Work).
My rationale is simple: after tomorrow, The Longest Day of the Year, it will not be getting more summer-like, which you might reasonably expect if it were the First Day of Summer.
Which it is not.
Days will shorten for the next 180 days until December 21st , also known (in my universe) as Midwinter.
After which, it will proceed once more to get more summery, until June 21st rolls around once more, and I rant again.
This has been a public service announcement.
Next you'll be trying to claim that the year 2000 was not the first year of the 21st century! ;)
Posted by: Dave Goodman | June 21, 2009 at 12:02 PM
I couldn't agree more about daylight and summer.
If the days are getting shorter, the high point of summer is over.
It's especially depressing if you find yourself in late August lamely saying "Hey, c'mon, there's still another month of summer left!"
Posted by: Fritz Holznagel | June 21, 2009 at 07:30 PM