If you're a little disoriented by the end of daylight savings, you might be able to get a little perspective from a couple of websits that let you see your current place in the earth's true daily turning. The simple version is The World Sunlight Map at die.net, by Google engineer Aaron Hopkins, and it's just a current map of the world that shows you where there is sun and where there is not. You can choose the projection and nothing else, but it's very elegant looking. (The default is the familiar Mercator projection.) 

A more flexible if complicated tool is at Fourmilab.ch, a site apparently belonging to the founder of Autodesk. This tool allows you to dial in different points of view and different times, but you dial the time in using UTC, or Coordinated Universal Time, something I still haven't understood. Either way, I think these are both nice ways of getting a quick sense of where night and day are, and where in night or day you are. These maps don't provide as much detail or data as the classic row of time zone clocks, but they are  prettier and more intuitive. 

They're also a good constant reminder that most of our little blue planet is ocean. My colleague and maritime blogger Jeff Davis recently posted a fascinating map of ship locations at sailwx.info.

Another Wishful Tangent: These maps reminded me of the prototyped Ambient Clock recently on Engadget--it  takes a Google Calendar feed and displays the busy times around the edges of an electronic round analog clock, the whole face of which changes color when you're about to have
an appointment. I was thinking it would make a neat mobile device for sales people if the empty "white space" inside the circle of the clock was instead a map of your location, with the locations of your upcoming appointments (and travel times?) marked out. But then it would be a little busy.