Present Day

The term "present day" is used to describe the approximate period of time that surrounds the present. Depending on the context, this period may be as narrow as referring to the immediate moment, or as broad as referring to the current year or decade. In general the term is used to refer to the contemporary era at the time it is used.

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    The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

    The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    Old Day the gardener seemed
    Death himself, or Time, scythe in hand
    by the sundial and freshly-dug
    grave in my book of parables.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)