Only four days each year are actually 24 hours long
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To mark the passage of time, we assign 24 hours to each day, universally.
Most of us are very used to 24 hours being in a day but aren’t used to the fact that this doesn’t correspond to a 360 degree rotation of the Earth. Most days, however, are either longer or shorter than 24 hours; only 4 days a year have precisely 24 hours to them.
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While that’s accurate for a day’s average length, most days aren’t 24 hours long.
This diagram shows an analemma, constructed by p
Most of us are very used to 24 hours being in a day but aren’t used to the fact that this doesn’t correspond to a 360 degree rotation of the Earth. Most days, however, are either longer or shorter than 24 hours; only 4 days a year have precisely 24 hours to them.
Credit: geralt/pixabay
While that’s accurate for a day’s average length, most days aren’t 24 hours long.
This diagram shows an analemma, constructed by p
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