Re: accruate "sundials"


<geraldkelleher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> To JTaylor
>
> The Earth's independent axial rotation is a single event hence there is
> only one value corresponding to that rotation through 360 degrees - 24
> hours exactly.
>

But why does it _have_ to be 24 hours?

Surely if we measured time in hitrops, and there were 41.3324 hitrops in a
day, it would be the same length. Why does it matter what we call the units
of time, or how big they are?


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