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A_Cat_Named_Frank t1_iy6tg10 wrote

Reply to comment by The-SeriousGamer42 in A complete day is 48 hours long. by [deleted]

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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