Quote Originally Posted by Xei View Post
What the... basic astronomy?

A day is how long it takes for the Earth to spin around. The Earth is not constantly accelerating and decelerating, this length of time is always 24 hours. The amount of time we can see the sun through the day changes throughout because of the Earth's tilt.

Any calendar with years and days needs leap years, because the Earth does not spin around a whole number of times when it orbits the Sun once. It's close to 365 ¼, so every four years has 365*4 + 1 days.
You would be the worst teacher ever. And thanks for the info. I did know that, I just hadn't bothered to think about it in the slightest since I was 5.