# today (temporal)

the day of now

- Computed level: L5 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: lexicon  ·  Arena: emergence

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [days](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-days.temporal), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension)

**Through:** when a day and now are together

**Novel properties:**
- present day
- current date

## Examples
- On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, a day marked in UTC as starting at 00:00 and ending at 23:59. *(astronomy)*
- Tokyo recorded 35°C at 3 PM on August 1, 2023, during a heatwave monitored by the Japan Meteorological Agency. *(meteorology)*
- The New York Stock Exchange processed 1.2 billion shares on March 15, 2024, its highest volume that fiscal quarter. *(economics)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-today.temporal*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-today.temporal.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*