first of May

On Monday, the first of May, also known as May Day, we discovered the true value of daylight saving time, when the sun in Washington remained in our sky until 8 p.m. and maximum brightness became our lot.

John: In the Bay Area, we go, for the most part, from the first of May to about the first of October, often with zero rain.

There was already a holiday on the first of May with ancient origins — think flower crowns and maypoles — but national labor organizers did not have that in mind in 1884 when they set May 1, 1886, as a deadline for businesses to grant their workers an eight-hour workday.

Late on the first of May, New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s most recent pay-per-view event was coming to a close.

By the first of May, 1302, the transept and most of its vaulting was complete.