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No it should be 24.0159254 old-hours, so that the orbital period is an integral number of earth rotations. Assuming you want to waste your mad-scientist powers on silly bureaucratic nonsense, and not on, say, spinning the earth fast enough to lower surface gravity (leap tall buildings in a single bound to get to Starbucks).


No, speed up the orbital period too so we can have a 360-day year.


Quarterly reports coming sooner? No thanks. Let's slow down the orbital period to 400 days. Nice, 100 day quarters. And, as that change leads to other changes in our daily life, maybe I'll finally eventually use that "grad" button on my calculator.




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