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A day is a basic unit of time defined by the rotation of the Earth relative to the Sun or to distant stars. In civil use, a day is 24 hours long, subdivided into 24 hours, 60 minutes per hour, and 60 seconds per minute. There are several technical definitions: the solar day, which is the interval between successive noons and is close to 24 hours; the mean solar day, the average length of solar days; and the sidereal day, the time for Earth to complete one rotation relative to the stars, about 23 hours 56 minutes.

Historically, days were anchored to the day-night cycle. Modern timekeeping relies on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

The term day can also refer to a date within a calendar, such as Monday, 1 January.

The names of the days of the week in many languages reflect a mix of astronomical and

On other planets, the length of a day differs widely: Venus has a sidereal day of about

and
time
zones
to
synchronize
clocks
worldwide.
In
most
calendars,
civil
days
begin
at
midnight,
though
some
systems
adjust
for
daylight
saving
time,
shifting
hours
forward
or
back.
Weeks,
typically
seven
days
long,
group
days
for
work
and
leisure;
the
sequence
and
length
of
weekends
vary
by
culture
and
religion
(for
example,
Friday–Saturday
in
some
regions,
Saturday–Sunday
in
others).
mythological
origins,
notably
the
Sun
and
Moon
and
the
Germanic
gods
(for
instance,
Sunday,
Monday,
Tuesday,
Wednesday,
Thursday,
Friday,
Saturday).
243
Earth
days;
Mars’
equatorial
day
is
about
24
hours
39
minutes;
a
lunar
day
is
about
29.5
Earth
days.
These
differences
illustrate
that
a
"day"
is
not
a
universal
constant.