NO,there are 86400 atomic-seconds during the day; and living with 84600 seconds is ABSURD.
Mea culpa!
Brij caught me in a very careless error. I was quoting that number from memory (a faulty memory, apparently) and got two digits interchanged. I had intended to do the arithmetic to check myself before I was finished, but I carelessly sent it off without making that check.
My apologies for the confusion (and thanks to Brij for pointing out my error).
I should, of course, have stated that the day is 86400 seconds long. (I don't know why Brij calls them "atomic-seconds".) Hence my example should have specified that there are 86.4 ks in a day; and that 3 days of 86 ks and 2 days of 87 ks in each five day period would also work and would allow each day to have a whole number of kiloseconds, avoiding the fraction. Of course eliminating the fractional kilosecond in each day results in having days that are not all the same length (just as our months and years are not the same length). It was just a silly example but I should have been more careful to get the detailed numbers correct.
However, the point of the argument is not affected by whether or not the exactly correct numbers were used in my examples.
Regards, Bill Hooper Fernadina Beach, Florida, USA ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Go Metric America! Or get left behind! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
