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

>And length of day most assuredly derives from the synodic day,
>i.e., mean solar time.  Is there not one fewer day in the year than
>sidereal rotations?

"Derives from" is not a "physical reality", it's merely a social custom.


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