10:05:01 PM (UTC)
Absolute date: 739,858
Day 242 and Second 20,973,901 of current year
117 shopping days until Christmas

Phase of moon: waning gibbous
Age of moon: 2 days (since last full moon)

For Detroit (EDT)
Sun rise: 6:56 AM, set: 8:10 PM (today)
Sun rise: 6:57 AM, set: 8:08 PM (tomorrow)

Julian Day
2,461,282.42

Julian Calendar
August 17, 2026

ISO Calendar
Day 07 of Week 35 of Year 2026

World Calendar
Wednesday, August 29, 2026

Hebrew Calendar
18 Elul 5786

Islamic Calendar
Rabi I 17, 1448

Mayan Calendars
Long Count: 13.0.13.16.0
Haab (Civil): 13 Mol
Tzolkin (Religious): 12 Ahau

French Revolutionary
Time: 7:53:48
Décade II, Tridi de Fructidor de l'Année 234 de la Révolution

Coptic
Misra 24, 1742

Ethiopic
Nahas 25, 2018

Persian
Sahrivar 08, 1405

Baha'i
11th day of Names, B.E. 183

Births
Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley (229 years ago)
Carl David Tolme Runge (170 years ago)
Sir Ernest Rutherford (155 years ago)
Fred MacMurray (118 years ago)
Edward Mills Purcell (114 years ago)
Ted Williams (108 years ago)

Deaths
Sir Joseph John Thomson (86 years ago)

Events
Benedict Arnold betrayed his country (246 years ago)
75 cents per pound tariff set on opium (184 years ago)
Confederates won the 2nd Battle of Bull Run (164 years ago)
Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected (63 years ago)
1st recorded occurrance of a comet hitting sun (47 years ago)
Poland's labor union, Solidarity, born (46 years ago)