On Saturday, December 8, 2018 at 2:19:50 PM UTC-7, Gerald Kelleher wrote:

For people who are supposed to elevate logic and mathematical reasoning to a
ridiculous level, the inability to affirm the 1461 days/rotations within the
confines of 4 orbital circuits or the insistence in 366 1/4 rotations per
orbital circuits obscures the masterpiece that is planetary timekeeping. This is
as far as it goes when somebody does not have the integrity to affirm what is
correct.

It's true that the Sun that divides night from day is big and obvious.

And the rotation of the Earth determines the length of the day.

But you *know* the orbit of the Earth around the Sun is an ellipse and not a
circle. You *know* there's such a thing as the Equation of Time.

So why can't you accept that for some purposes, "average" is not even remotely
as good or useful as "constant", and it is therefore necessary for those who
deal with such matters to start from stellar circumpolar motion, which is almost
completely uniform, as a sound basis for their work?

John Savard