Most people when they wake up at dawn understand that the Sun rising and setting within each 24 hour period represents a rotation of our home planet while few people go into greater detail to comprehend the Lat/Long system overlaid on the geometry and geography of the Earth and tied to each rotation in 24 hours . Nobody goes into the details of planetary dynamics where the system which differentiates the rotation of the Earth 365 1/4 times per annual circuit from human timekeeping which formats the natural observation into the 365 day/366 day calendar framework.

We exist in an era where it is fashionable to say that the Earth turns 366 1/4 times within the confines of an orbital circuit thereby destroying the elegant reasoning which links timekeeping to the great planetary cycles of daily rotation and orbital motion -

"During one orbit around the Sun, the Earth rotates about its own axis 366.26 times" Main 'Earth' page, Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth

Effectively people are prepared to believe that days and rotations fall out of step across an annual circuit which should be unthinkable for reasonable people let alone those involved in navigation and a familiarity with the Lat/Long system. How mistakes were made to give rise to a monstrous reasoning is second to understanding how the timekeeping system framework was constructed from observations of the Earth's motion and the parent observation that there are 1461 rotations within 4 orbital circuits which breaks down to 365 1/4 rotations per orbital circuit.

It is a question of relevance at this stage, how people value their own intellectual capabilities at the most basic level where they know that when they wake up to a new day they are also waking up to another rotation and they never,ever fall out of step.