In a message dated 4/6/2001 4:43:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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<< This is the day that you lose or gain depending on whether
 you think that a rotation of the earth is achieved when it
 reaches the same position relative to the sun or to the stars.
 The difference is one day every year.
 Do I make myself clear?
 A sketch would help but I don't have a chalkboard here.
  >>


If you had the chalkboard, would your sketch explain how, if the time is made
up in the course of a year, it isn't off by 12 hours in the middle of the
year, allowing us all to eat lunch in the dark?

Ralph