well Dwight that's not entirely true...
You see, to those who celebrate the summer and winter solstis'...
Then the Summer Solstis is traditionaly the LONGEST
day of the year and so as it takes place at the begining of summer (for those here in the Northern Hemisphere) than the
days would logically get SHORTER as we head toward the winter (thru the summer) and conversly as the winter solstis is traditionally the shortest
day of the year, and it takes place at the begining of winter, then the days MUST be getting LONGER thru the winter.
See the problem with that question is it fails to clarify the meening of the word "day" does it meen the period of day light as in
day and night
or does it meen
day as in a 24 hour period of time...
Clearly days are determined by a full rotation of the earth...NOT by the revolutions of a quarts movement...thus the need for a leap year every time we elect a new joker to that big house down in DC...it was designed to correct the issues we have with our faulty system of determining what a day (24 hours) is...
Actually days are NOT 24 hours...as discovered way back in 1851 by that Bright French (spit
) Physicist Foucault when he dangled that big hunk of bronse at the Pantheon in Paris and discovered that it takes 23 hours and 56 min for the earth to rotate one full revolution
We just feel the need to standardize everything...and 24 hours (with an extra 24 tossed in every 1,460 days was the closest we could manage to get)
