Well, it assumed facts not in evidence. But the post-defensive me knows you are right. Sorry. --Dan
On Apr 7, 2015, at 7:31 PM, Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> wrote:
On 07/04/2015 17:44, Dan Asimov wrote:
Yes. Start at the earliest time zone. It takes 24 hours to finish the day in question.
It takes 1 more hour, respectively, for each of the succeeding 23 time zones to finish the same day.
So you intended a model in which the date line is not opposite the prime meridian, but on some border between two of your 24 time-zones?
Fair enough, but I do think that in that case the answer to my proposed solution should have been not "Nope." but something more like "That would be right if we put the date line in the middle of a time zone, but that isn't the model I intended." I wasted some time trying to figure out what was wrong with my reasoning, and it turns out nothing was wrong with it.