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Recalling Yesterday

From: Christian Sánchez <chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:18:17 -0300
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From http://www.futilitycloset.com/2011/03/23/recalling-yesterday/:

  I've just been reading Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days - you know, where Phileas Fogg lost a day on the way round. Our science master says that ships put it right nowadays by having a thing called a Universal Date Line in the Pacific. When you cross the line from East to West you put the calendar on a day; and when you cross it the other way you put the calendar back. What I want to know is, when Puck put a girdle round the Earth in forty minutes and presumably did the right thing on crossing the Date Line, why didn't he get back on the day before he started - or the day after, according to which way round he went?

  I asked the English master this and he got quite cross about it and said it was nothing to do with Shakespeare. But if you flew round the earth as quickly as Puck it would matter, wouldn't it?
Received on Fri 25 Mar 2011 - 10:21:59 IST

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