Day

Day

A day is a unit of time. In common usage, it is an interval equal to 24 hours. It also can mean the consecutive period of time during which the Sun is above the horizon of a location, also known as daytime. The period of time measured from local noon to the following local noon is called a solar day.

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Famous quotes containing the word day:

    “It is day still, you better get busy!
    Night will intrude when no one can be active.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “Old Day the gardener seemed
    Death himself, or Time, scythe in hand
    by the sundial and freshly-dug
    grave in my book of parables.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)