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Contents 1 Error in Introduction 2 "List of famous days" 3 Boundaries of the day 4 Change in day length over the time 5 "24:00" doesn't feel like it fits 6 Daily shouldn't redirect here. 7 Interwiki problem 8 Beginning our broadcast day 9 Chronomera 10 People

[edit] Error in Introduction

Currently the introduction states that "definitions of the day are based on the apparent motion of the Sun across the sky". This is factually incorrect: the cause and basis of the day is the rotation of the Earth. The apparent motion of the Sun because of this is the basis for just one type of day; besides this, people have been looking to the apparent motion of the stars instead for ages (sidereal day; actually that refers to the moving aequinox, but well...). Originally I had put here a general descriptive phrase like "the word day is used for several different units of time based on the rotation of the Earth". Somehow it got lost in the successive rewrites. I propose to fix this. Tom Peters 13:03, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "List of famous days"

Why is this list here at all? It would be endless! We already have got the Wikipedia:WikiProject Days of the year which does a better job. Also the page is about the DAY as a unit of time, not about DATES. I propose to remove that section here permanently. Tom Peters 09:38, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree. I have deleted that section before and have now deleted it again.

Fine, but please do not such things anonymously! An anonymous delete is vandalism by default. Tom Peters 15:45, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Boundaries of the day

I introduced and expanded this section, but it requires information from other societies on when the day begins and ends. It might also do with more wikilinks. -Acjelen 20:14, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Change in day length over the time

Hi,

Could anybody offer a section in which length duration change on a geological time scale could be described. See for example http://www.religioustolerance.org/oldearth1.htm#skip

Cheers.

[edit] "24:00" doesn't feel like it fits

I edited the reference to "24:00" as midnight, since it is referenced just prior as "0:00", and added a qualifier in brackets. Hope noone minds this clarification. :) - Gingerkitteh 04:18, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Daily shouldn't redirect here.

It's also a term for a british newspaper. Tlogmer 00:37, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Interwiki problem

In Tamil language, there are two different words - one for the unit of time and the other for the sunlit state. The two articles are ta:பகல் (sunlit period) and ta:நாள் (unit of time). Which one do we link this to? -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 05:17, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

I think ta:நாள் (unit of time) is marginally preferrable. I suppose the two articles refer to each other in disambig-like fashion?

Urhixidur 17:04, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Beginning our broadcast day

I didn't see it mentioned, but Egypt is credited (or so I hear...) with inventing the 24h day. Trekphiler 09:23, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

You are correct, although I suspect these were seasonal hours (varying with the seasons), not equinoctial hours (constant throughout the year, equal to the nighttime or daytime hour at either equinox). — Joe Kress 23:14, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chronomera

I have invented a new form of measuring time and I would like to know if it would be considered Original Research so can't post it. It seems very intuitive to me so please read the whole specs before responding.

• One "mera" is a day from Greek .
• so a decimera is a tenth day or 2.4 hours.
• Centimera = hundreth of day = 14.4 minutes.
• Milliera = thousandth = 1.44 minutes.
• Dilomera = ten thousandth = 8.64 seconds.
• Silomera = hundreth thousand = .864 seconds.
• Microera = millionth = .0864 seconds

This can also be used to say time, for example 15:37(military time) = 6:50 (chronmera system). I am so far teh only person using this but I think it could catch on, if I cant post it here is there a seperate wiki I could put it in. (-Ozone-)

An original idea such as yours is not allowed on Wikipedia because it is included within No original research under "What is excluded?". You can post it on your own web site. — Joe Kress 07:24, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

This idea is not new at all. It was already proposed during the French revolution. See article decimal time. −Woodstone 09:04, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Really, wow. So I am not the first one. Thank you. I still think my wording is more elegant, though. Wow. (-Ozone-)

[edit] People

I'm afraid I don't see the importance of having a list of people with "Day" in their name. WikiSlasher 12:36, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Hey, good catch. Unfortunately, folks, although generally trying to be helpful, will add extraneous info to articles. I created a disambiguation page (Day (disambiguation)) and moved that list over there. Madman 15:20, 15 June 2006 (UTC)