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Where Does the Day Begin?

To understand this subject we must first appreciate that a day as we think of it is a division of time made by man for the purpose of his own reckoning. So far as the beginning of day is concerned, it begins at a different place in the world every hour; yes, every minute and every second in the day. As, however, the distance in feet where the day begins from one minute to another is so short that we can hardly notice it in such short measurements of time, we will look at the answer to the question from hour to hour. When you understand the subject from that point you can yourself see that the day actually begins at a different point of the earth every minute and every second of time.

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