The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-09-28
TODAY, YESTERDAY OR Tososso,,
How a Conflict Of Dates I, Settled In a..
Part Of the Pacific Ocean.

Fart OF the Pacific Ocean
A question which has often been ~,
but rarely answered satisfactorily /. -
far one would have 10 90 around fbo ca,
moving east or west and supposing net,
lost In transition, before one would -
the point where today changes into ys,,,.
day or tomorrow. Evidently there -.
be such poiat somewhere. Tor an nom, :
lost every 10 degrees one goes 20 the a.,
and an hour gained every Is degr,a. -
goes 10 the west.
To put the question In anotherway. S,,
pose it is one minute past midnight PA,
on the morning Of Oct. I, what DAY !. /,
at that same moment at the antlpod..J
Parisy lsit the lst Of October or the SOtb >
September.
Apparently one can prove that 10 Il es,b.,
Of these days by making an instantareos,
Journey half way around the earth eithe,,,
the east OF 20 the west.
Going east at the moment the p,s,
clocks point 10 a minute past m.dr.t'
II is approximately I o'clock IN the me-.
ing Of Oct. 1 at Vienna, 2 o'clock u n.
same day at Sebastapol. 3 O'Clock I,
Astrakhan, o'clock at Bokhara, Tocl,t
a. oagion, O'clock nc Yokohama, n oc',l
az Pine island and noon nc Fortune kl,,i
list Of October at every point
On the other hand, going westward on.
finds that it is 10 o'clock IN the EVENING"
Sept. 80 at the Agore islands, S O'Clock f.
the evening as Buenos Ayres, O'Clock
New York, o'clock at New Orleans. t'
at Mexico City. 1 o'clock In the afterass
near the Aleutisn islands aud noon a. r.,
tune islam 1.-THE date being Sept 90 intas
case
Thus one has demonstrated that its
noon OF Oct and noon OF Sept 30 90 ts
same place and at the same time
This would certainly be embarrassing a
the good people Of Fortune island. and I,
order 10 avoid such complications ana 10
lieye we'll meaning islanders 10 the pacss
from mixing up their Saturdays and SUD
days in hopeless fashion an arbitrary ls
separating today from yesterday or tomr
row has been agreed upon by the nayigas
Of civilized nations. This line hss bs.
drawn 70 avoid touching land. Noonec,
be exactly sure OF the moment Of pass.ngt
but the line runs just east Of the New H.
rides and the New Caledonia groups Nl
passes near the Marion islands and 81
Caroline islands Captains OF vessels juI,
ing by the positions Of the islands n
toned, can fix the date within a few m.-
utes.
Vessels sailing from west 10 east on pass
ing this imaginary line simply repeat d.
day before on their logbooks, which or
sequently show two days bearing the sane
date. On the other hand, ships going ts
opposite direction from west 90 east skip
the tomorrow and lose a day entirely il
the first case the sailors get an extra days
pay; in the second case they lose % days
pay.
The conclusion Of tine whole matter 3
that when the Paris clocks indicate a m1.
ute past midnight on oct 10 is oct :,
ing east as far a. the imaginary line Jusi5
dcated while il is Sept 30 going west 3
70 the same line. IL would be possible o.
oreticaliy, therefore, FOR "A man swimm-i
IN those waters 20 have one OF bis legs b
Saturday and the other in Sunday at th
same momeut-Cleyeland Mofett IN Cll
cagO Inter Ocean.