Rob Seaman wrote: >I don't recall the precise terms of the wager (and never read the >original French).
As I recall (from an English translation) the wager was mooted merely as "eighty days" but then formalised as returning to the club at his usual time of day on a specified calendar date. > One could argue that it >took Fogg 81 days shortened days. Then, it would have been >preferable to travel westward and be able to take 80 longer days. I think that's a perverse meaning of "day". In the absence of DST or other changes (the story predates DST), "day" in a civil context and without any qualifier must be taken to mean civil days at any fixed location. Which location doesn't make any difference, of course, when using the day only as a unit of duration. You'd have a hard time arguing in court to measure solar days at a moving location. -zefram _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
