The I.N.H.A. Staff Blog

Category: Day-to-Day

When Is the Shortest Day of the Year?

December Solstice in Jensen, Utah, USA is on Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 9:28 am MST Seasons: Meteorological and Astronomical When do spring, summer, fall, and winter start and end? It depends on which definition you use and if you are north or south of the equator. The four seasons. ©bigstockphoto.com/iluzia Season: Definition The Earth’s…

Phones, Reading & Slow Times in the VC

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More from the Policy Statements TELEPHONE CALLS Employees’ family and friends should be informed that only calls of an urgent status should be made to workers. Direct personal calls are discouraged, and consistent abuse of this policy will be cause for termination. When working in the Visitor Center, the visitors are #1… all of the…

Nov 5, 2017 – Daylight Saving Time Ends

When local daylight time is about to reach Sunday, November 5, 2017, 2:00:00 am, clocks are turned backward 1 hour to Sunday, November 5, 2017, 1:00:00 am local standard time instead. Sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour earlier on Nov 5, 2017, than the day before. There will be more light in the morning. Also called Fall Back and Winter Time. Read more…

Autumn Equinox 2017

Equinoxes are opposite on either side of the equator, so the autumnal (fall) equinox in the Northern Hemisphere is the spring (vernal) equinox in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. Equinoxes and solstices happen twice a year. Not Entirely Equal Day & Night On the two equinoxes every year the Sun shines directly on the Equator and…

Changes in Hours and Shuttles

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After September 2, 2017, there will only be one RTW shuttle, no Wilkins shuttle (per the contract). The shuttle schedule will be every 15 minutes instead of every 7. Also, we only have daily shuttles through Sunday, September 10. After that we will have shuttles on Saturday and Sunday through the end of September, but not Monday…