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It depends, in a way, how you keep track of a complete spin.

If you use a distant, fixed star as the starting/finish line, then it takes 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds

to spin, from seeing that star to seeing it again in the same place.

If you use the sun as the reference marker, then it takes 24 hours.
24 hours
a day

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