Rewinding to Sunday, August 5, 2012…

Sunday · Pasadena, California, United States

The world on August 5, 2012 in Pasadena.

Outside

90°F, clear skies

Moon

waning gibbous

#1 song

Call Me Maybe

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01The weather outside

It was clear skies in Pasadena.

90°F/ 32°C high

Low of 65°F · dry · wind up to 7 mph

The sun rose at 6:07 am and set at 7:49 pm — 13h 43m of daylight.

Reconstructed from the ERA5 climate reanalysis — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.

02The sky that night

A waning gibbous watched over you.

82% lit · 18.8 days into its cycle

Looking up from Pasadena that evening, you could have spotted Mars and Saturn without a telescope.

It was summer in your half of the world.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “Call Me Maybe”

by Carly Rae Jepsen — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 9 weeks, taking over from “Somebody That I Used To Know”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PASADENA · 2012-08-05

ITEM2012TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$1.41$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$1.88$2.27Gallon of milkwhole$3.47$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$3.71$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$5.69$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$7.25$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$248,800$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.45$0.78

BREAD COSTS 1.3× WHAT IT DID

US national averages · ≈ = estimated from inflation

05Your life in numbers

Since that day, you have lived…

0

seconds

and counting, right now

0

heartbeats

at a resting average of 80 a minute

0

breaths

give or take a few yawns

0

sunrises

743 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles travelled

14 laps around the Sun

Mark your calendar: you’ll be 1,000 weeks old on October 5, 2031 — 1,799 days from now.

06Born under

A Sunday's child, under Leo.

Star sign

♌ Leo

Fire sign

Chinese zodiac

🐉 Dragon

Water Dragon

Birthstone

Peridot

for your month

Birth flower

Gladiolus

for your month

Generation

Generation Z

1997–2012

Day of the week

Sunday

07 — 12 Still sealed

There’s more to your day.

6 more chapters are waiting, rebuilt from the same archives.

  • Your star

    A real star in Aquila, 16.7 light-years away.

  • The world that day

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  • Birthday twins

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  • If someone had invested

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  • NASA’s picture of your day

    NASA published a space photo on your exact birthday.

  • Who ran the country in 2012

    1 leaders were in office the day you arrived.

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