Why is it not tuesday 85.7142857% of the time

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This a) presumes the length of the day is fixed, it is not as the earth varies in spin speed. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2003/0210rotation.html

b) you are observing it from a single location. https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/ for a variation on the theme, or in this case start in the furthest time zone (14 hours ahead of GMT I believe to put you in the Kiritimati, Christmas Island at the start and then via a trip you could end up in Baker Island which is 12 hours behind GMT)

c) you are not doing anything fun with relativity and time dilation. In fact you could probably measure it on the trip you would be taking if you had an atomic clock.
 

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This a) presumes the length of the day is fixed, it is not as the earth varies in spin speed. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2003/0210rotation.html

b) you are observing it from a single location. https://what-if.xkcd.com/48/ for a variation on the theme, or in this case start in the furthest time zone (14 hours ahead of GMT I believe to put you in the Kiritimati, Christmas Island at the start and then via a trip you could end up in Baker Island which is 12 hours behind GMT)

c) you are not doing anything fun with relativity and time dilation. In fact you could probably measure it on the trip you would be taking if you had an atomic clock.
*speechless*
 
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I don't want it to be mostly Tuesday, even though that would mean we never do maths in school for the whole of Year 9 ;) haha
It'd preferred I had it Saturday as every day.
 

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