I can't find a single person who will affirm that all the effects within a 24 hour
day, including massive temperature fluctuations
between day and night, is due to one rotation of the planet
and that these
days never, ever fall out of step with rotations.The ideology which contemporaries have inherited from the late 17th century is that the Earth's rotation falls out of step with 24 hour
days to the tune of 4 extra rotations in 4 years by virtue of an utterly stupid idea that the planet's daily
and orbital motions can be modeled directly from a
rotating celestial sphere of Ra / Dec observing.