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That's how we define day and night - 24 hour periods in relation to the sun. but according to Genesis, that's not how the terms were used in that passage.
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Exactly the point. The terms are used in that passage because humans wrote it, humans who couldn't imagine anything beyond days and nights. Actually it's translated "evening and morning", so it's even more off base in saying that evening and morning (essentially night) was the first day, second day, et cetera. Had the writers of the Talmud understood what caused night and day they might have chosen to be a bit more metaphysical in describing the creation story.