AstroRockHunter, I'm more nit-picking than anything else.

The Earth rotates around its axis once every 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds. Closer to 361 degrees per 24 hours than 360. Absolutely.

I'm just saying that I don't think it would've made any difference if we'd known all along that that's how it works. Our clocks would still be based on the solar day and not the sidereal day because that's what's important to Earth-bound life.

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