Is Earth's Day - Night cyle exactly 24 hours?

Anonymous

∙ 16y ago

Updated: 8/17/2019

No. We are short each day by 1/17088 of an hour or 4.7 seconds a day.

So we add an extra day every four years -29th February, and call it a leap year to jump the exact time and the worlds rotation around the sun back on track.

Wiki User

∙ 16y ago

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