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Originally Posted by MoriartyL
The day/night cycle has nothing to do with where the Earth is relative to the sun, it is about the rotation of the Earth along its poles. The time it takes to get from light to light is 24 hours. That time doesn't change just because the Earth has moved. I'm sorry, but I don't see why you'd think it would.
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Because I always learned that
the earth rotates around its axis once every 24 hours. That must be not true, otherwise daytime WOULD shift during the year. EDIT: we both were right; I never knew there was a
Mean Solar Day and a
Sidereal Day.
