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What you are talking about is a sidereal day on earth, 23 hours 56 min and 4.1 seconds in duration. This is the time it takes the Earth to rotate once with relation to the universe around it.

This is shorter that a solar day which is 24 hours on average - the time it takes for a given point to face the sun again. The difference is based on the fact that the earth advances about one degree in it's orbit in a day so that the earth needs to turn about 361 degrees to face the sun again...

If we take the 24 hour solar day (1440 minutes) and divide it by the 361 degrees it represents we get 4 minutes - the difference between the solar and sidereal day on earth.

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