Originally posted by BowmannOh my God!!
The sidereal day and solar day are different lengths.
In other words, what we call a day is not the same as one rotation of the earth.
Additional: The earth rotates every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.091 seconds.
You are that kid we used to kick the sh!t outta!!
Originally posted by BowmannI didn't post it right away. I believe when I saw it, it was still before midnight. When I posted it, it was already past midnight here. So I posted the data for 31 May, but what you saw was the data for 1 June.
Well, when I checked last night (following your initial post) it looked fine.
In the earlier years, a day was the period of time it took two knights to meet in the centre of the ring during a jousting tournament. It would usually take many days before a knight could be eliminated from the competition, but occasionally a single-day clash would occur in which one of the knights would die during the first pass due to strange complications such as a cardiac arrest or acute leprosy. The amount of days it took a knight to defeat his opponent would be tallied up by a shadowy group of judges and retired travelling salesmen. The knight with the least amount of days at the end of the tournament would be crowned Champion of the Polar Arts and would get a free two-week trip to Iceland, all expenses paid.
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Day