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The-SeriousGamer42 t1_iy6t6dm wrote

Uh, what? A single day is 24 hours long, a half a day is 12 hours. Am I just incredibly dumb?

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A_Cat_Named_Frank t1_iy6tg10 wrote

It takes 24 hours for midnight to pass around the globe from one side of the date line to the other then 24 hours until that point reaches midnight again.

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Greycloak42 t1_iy6usea wrote

Since you exist at only one point on the planet that is sort of irrelevant. A day is the passage of 24 hours from your local perspective.

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Zeromus88 t1_iy9e7yz wrote

And the fact that it passed the "date line" twice indicates two days, genius.

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