How many minutes in a day and how many hours in a day?

Answer 1

The Earth takes about 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds to rotate exactly one time.

But in that time, we don't see the sun return exactly to the same place.

The apparent motion of the sun is what's obvious to us, so we design our clocks

to match the sun. We call each complete apparent turn of the sun "a day", and

we mark off 24 equal spaces on our clock, which we call 'hours'.

Note:

If we want to build a telescope that automatically follows the stars across the sky,

then we can't use a normal clock to run the telescope. We have to build a different

clock that turns at the rate of the Earth, and turns the telescope through a complete

rotation in 23hours 56minutes 4seconds.

A previous answer in this space related the length of a day to the need for Leap Year.

Nothing in this discussion has any connection whatsoever with Leap Years.

Answer 2

60 Minutes in a hour

24 hours in a day

So: 1440 minutes in a day.

Answer 3

116 days have 167040 hours.