An oversight

[Shadow Wolf]

Sorry my dear, it is a test of sanity for not only you but also everyone else in this forum. The Sun's graceful arc from horizon to horizon followed by the vast celestial arena and all the other stars as they come into view within each 24 hours is due to a single rotation .

I'd go insane if I tried to rationalize a 24 hour day fitting into the natural rotations of the earth. It just doesn't work. It's entirely man-made. Many of our ancients even had a more accurate concept of a year and a day than what we have today.

The NASA website assigns 1465 rotations in 1461 days so we live in a world which doesn't appreciate a sunrise as an effect of a rotating Earth and the religious experience it gives so many people hence a world that is neither scientific or religious.

Not having 24-hours as a solar day doesn't change mean people don't acknowledge the sunrise as an act of the Earth's rotation. It just means that what we, the largest part of "modern" humanity, do not perceive a day in the way that nature has made it. The very reason we have to have a leap year is because there are 365 1/4 rotations in a year, and we need that extra day every four years to account for the 1/4 turn so we can keep our very crappy 24-hour/365 day calendar from completely derailing.

 

[Gerald Kelleher]

I'd go insane if I tried to rationalize a 24 hour day fitting into the natural rotations of the earth. It just doesn't work. It's entirely man-made. Many of our ancients even had a more accurate concept of a year and a day than what we have today.

Not having 24-hours as a solar day doesn't change mean people don't acknowledge the sunrise as an act of the Earth's rotation. It just means that what we, the largest part of "modern" humanity, do not perceive a day in the way that nature has made it. The very reason we have to have a leap year is because there are 365 1/4 rotations in a year, and we need that extra day every four years to account for the 1/4 turn so we can keep our very crappy 24-hour/365 day calendar from completely derailing.

Sweetheart, you are fine . You may have read the hideous NASA belief that there are 366 1/4 rotations in an orbital circuit so indeed you lack the sanity to discuss how they arrived at that number insofar as days and rotations always keep in step,after all, that was the main point -

"The Earth spins on its axis about 366 and 1/4 times each year, but there are only 365 and 1/4 days per year." NASA

Ask an Astrophysicist: Earth and Moon

There are a lot of technical issues behind that statement that you are not familiar with so you are excused on that however you are all over the place like most here and can't settle down long enough to appreciate the narrative where timekeeping and the Earth's motions merge.. No need to feel bad - just go outside and enjoy the spectacle of a sunrise and sunset as a consequence of a single rotation and leave the technical details to me.