1. A utility management system for synchronizing current and/or recent operating pattern(s) with corresponding operating pattern(s) of a prior year, the system comprising: at least one storage device configured to store current and/or recent operating patterns, and previous operating patterns of approximately a year prior to the current and/or recent operating patterns, wherein the current and/or recent operating patterns comprise current and/or recent discrete intervals of utility usage data, and the previous operating patterns comprise historical discrete intervals of utility usage data; and a processor coupled to the storage device, wherein the processor is configured to: synchronize the current and/or recent operating patterns with the previous operating patterns, based at least in part on periodically-repeating time periods over which the usage occurred; generate a historical comparison of discrete intervals of utility usage from different but related periodically-repeating time periods, that at least partly takes into account time-variable factors affecting the usage; and automatically correlate usage data from a given day in a current and/or recent year with usage data from a previous day approximately a year prior, where the given day and the previous day are a same day of the week, and the given day is exactly 364 days and/or an integer multiple thereof after the previous day, in order to track performance of a facility with respect to utility usage; and a display coupled to the processor, the display configured to output graphical visualization of the historical comparison.