day

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Non-SI unit of time, \(\text{d}=86\ 400\ \text{s}\). The day is not exactly defined in terms of the second since so-called leap seconds are added or subtracted from the day semiannually in order to keep the annual average occurrence of midnight at 24:00 on the clock.
Sources:
Green Book, 2nd ed., p. 111 [Terms] [Book]
PAC, 1996, 68, 957. (Glossary of terms in quantities and units in Clinical Chemistry (IUPAC-IFCC Recommendations 1996)) on page 968 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'day' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 3rd ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2006. Online version 3.0.1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.D01527 RIS BibTex EndNote
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