In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes:

>By definition, of course, the length of a day is always 86,400
>seconds, or 24 hours of 60 minutes of 60 "natural seconds" :-)

For values of "always" starting slowly some hundred years ago in
selected geographies and cultures, and ending world wide in 1972.

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