>>>>>Even better, come November, we'll have an interesting second (twice):
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>>>>Once. Unless you share the common illusion that the day has 12 hours twice. We learn that it has 24 hours.
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>>>If a day has twenty four hours how many does a night have ?
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>>A day has 24 hours plus the night - just as the week has seven days and the weekend.
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>Nah. 24hrs including the night. And the week has five days and the weekend

You never had a stiff deadline, lucky you. "It will take me all week!" (says you, thinking of seven days). "There's also the weekend" (says the boss, thinking you meant only until Friday).

>>We're on the wrong planet. We'd need one with 256 days with 32 hours each. Or something equally smooth so our love for round numbers and ease of programming would be satisfied.
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>But 'round numbers' are in the eye of the beholder......

Yeh, some would think that funny numbers like 100 or 1000 days are round.