Yiffy Hour is a holi-hour (similar to a holiday) to celebrate yiffy people! It is one hour of celebration that happens 13 times each year.
FYI, yiffy people are those of us who are attracted to, or identify as, non-humans. This can be anything from zoos, to murrsuiters, to fursuiters who don't identify as human, etc. You're probably yiffy and didn't know there was a word for it!
HOW IT WORKS (this is a little technical, but bear with me...)
Anyway, yiffy hour is calculated once each year during "Lunar Christmas". Lunar Christmas is the first full moon during the month of December.
Lunar Christmas is also not a day... it is actually the minute at which the moon is completely full.
According to this website hosted by NOAA, Lunar Christmas occurred at exactly 5:12 in the morning on December 12, 2019 (GMT).
Once the time of Lunar Christmas is known, then you can go over to the NIST Randomness Beacon to get the necessary data that determines the following year's 13 yiffy hours.
Simply look up the random value it spits out at 5:12 AM on Dec. 12, 2019 (GMT), and get the next 12 values, all the way up to 5:24 AM Dec. 12, 2019 (GMT). The NIST beacon spits out a new random value every minute.
With the 13 random values in-claw, (not in-hand lol), you simply convert these hexadecimal values to decimal, and then take it's modulus over the total number of minutes in the year. For 2020, there are 60*24*366 = 527040 minutes in the year.
For example, the first random value, "3F9...846", modulo 527040 equals 124998.
Then, you take this number, 124998, multiply it by 60 to get 7499880, and add it to the Unix timestamp for Jan 1st, 2020 00:00:00 (timestamp: 1577858400) to get the timestamp of the first yiffy hour of the following year, 2020! (1st yiffy hour timestamp: 1585358280)
Then all you need to do is convert the timestamp into date format, which can easily be done with this website. As you can see, the 1st yiffy hour of 2020 occurs on Saturday, March 28, 2020 1:18:00 AM (GMT).
Repeat this process for the remaining 12 random values to get all 13 yiffy hours for the year 2020!
Note that there are 13 yiffy hours every year, and this is to coincide with the frequency of full moons throughout the year. There are roughly 13 on average each year. Awoo!
HOW TO CELEBRATE
Yiffy Hour only lasts an hour, so be sure to party your tail off during yiffy hour!
Yiffy Hour can come at any time... during lunch, in the middle of the night, or while you're on the toilet. It is totally random!
There are a few ways you can truly honor yiffy people during Yiffy Hour.
Firstly, yiffy people have notoriously hard lives, so getting drunk during Yiffy Hour truly brings us great honor and joy, and lets you participate in our life experience! It is even better if you get drunk in public during Yiffy Hour!
Secondly, having sex during Yiffy Hour is good as well, because it shows that you realize that we all have sex, and no one is any different.
But mostly, as long as you are having fun during Yiffy Hour, even if it's 3 in the morning, you are truly celebrating yiffy people!
And, like all good things, Yiffy Hour does come to an end. It begins at a particular day and time, but it only lasts an hour. So make the most of it!
WHEN IS IT
Here is a list of Yiffy Hours for the year 2020. The time below indicates when it begins, and it lasts for an hour after each below date and time (all times in GMT timezone):
Well... we wait!
We have no way of knowing when Yiffy Hour will arrive in 2021!
We have to wait until Lunar Christmas this year, at 3:28 AM on Dec. 30 2020 (GMT), in order to get the random values from the NIST Randomness Beacon! Until then, no one knows when Yiffy Hour will arrive in 2021!
The only question is... Do you celebrate? Are you in the club?
Where will YOU be when Yiffy Hour comes next!
FYI, yiffy people are those of us who are attracted to, or identify as, non-humans. This can be anything from zoos, to murrsuiters, to fursuiters who don't identify as human, etc. You're probably yiffy and didn't know there was a word for it!
HOW IT WORKS (this is a little technical, but bear with me...)
Anyway, yiffy hour is calculated once each year during "Lunar Christmas". Lunar Christmas is the first full moon during the month of December.
Lunar Christmas is also not a day... it is actually the minute at which the moon is completely full.
According to this website hosted by NOAA, Lunar Christmas occurred at exactly 5:12 in the morning on December 12, 2019 (GMT).
Once the time of Lunar Christmas is known, then you can go over to the NIST Randomness Beacon to get the necessary data that determines the following year's 13 yiffy hours.
Simply look up the random value it spits out at 5:12 AM on Dec. 12, 2019 (GMT), and get the next 12 values, all the way up to 5:24 AM Dec. 12, 2019 (GMT). The NIST beacon spits out a new random value every minute.
With the 13 random values in-claw, (not in-hand lol), you simply convert these hexadecimal values to decimal, and then take it's modulus over the total number of minutes in the year. For 2020, there are 60*24*366 = 527040 minutes in the year.
For example, the first random value, "3F9...846", modulo 527040 equals 124998.
Then, you take this number, 124998, multiply it by 60 to get 7499880, and add it to the Unix timestamp for Jan 1st, 2020 00:00:00 (timestamp: 1577858400) to get the timestamp of the first yiffy hour of the following year, 2020! (1st yiffy hour timestamp: 1585358280)
Then all you need to do is convert the timestamp into date format, which can easily be done with this website. As you can see, the 1st yiffy hour of 2020 occurs on Saturday, March 28, 2020 1:18:00 AM (GMT).
Repeat this process for the remaining 12 random values to get all 13 yiffy hours for the year 2020!
Note that there are 13 yiffy hours every year, and this is to coincide with the frequency of full moons throughout the year. There are roughly 13 on average each year. Awoo!
HOW TO CELEBRATE
Yiffy Hour only lasts an hour, so be sure to party your tail off during yiffy hour!
Yiffy Hour can come at any time... during lunch, in the middle of the night, or while you're on the toilet. It is totally random!
There are a few ways you can truly honor yiffy people during Yiffy Hour.
Firstly, yiffy people have notoriously hard lives, so getting drunk during Yiffy Hour truly brings us great honor and joy, and lets you participate in our life experience! It is even better if you get drunk in public during Yiffy Hour!
Secondly, having sex during Yiffy Hour is good as well, because it shows that you realize that we all have sex, and no one is any different.
But mostly, as long as you are having fun during Yiffy Hour, even if it's 3 in the morning, you are truly celebrating yiffy people!
And, like all good things, Yiffy Hour does come to an end. It begins at a particular day and time, but it only lasts an hour. So make the most of it!
WHEN IS IT
Here is a list of Yiffy Hours for the year 2020. The time below indicates when it begins, and it lasts for an hour after each below date and time (all times in GMT timezone):
- Monday, January 13, 2020 6:12:00 PM
- Saturday, March 28, 2020 1:18:00 AM
- Sunday, April 12, 2020 1:05:00 AM
- Monday, April 20, 2020 1:40:00 PM
- Friday, July 10, 2020 4:00:00 AM
- Tuesday, September 1, 2020 6:11:00 PM
- Sunday, September 13, 2020 4:57:00 PM
- Monday, September 14, 2020 6:20:00 PM
- Thursday, September 17, 2020 6:45:00 AM
- Monday, October 5, 2020 10:14:00 AM
- Monday, November 30, 2020 8:59:00 AM
- Monday, December 14, 2020 7:02:00 PM
- Wednesday, December 16, 2020 5:05:00 PM
Well... we wait!
We have no way of knowing when Yiffy Hour will arrive in 2021!
We have to wait until Lunar Christmas this year, at 3:28 AM on Dec. 30 2020 (GMT), in order to get the random values from the NIST Randomness Beacon! Until then, no one knows when Yiffy Hour will arrive in 2021!
The only question is... Do you celebrate? Are you in the club?
Where will YOU be when Yiffy Hour comes next!