Re: GR translation: everyone grudging an hour’s sleep

[Mike Jing]

According to Weisenburger, the date of this episode is still December 18th,
so that might not be it. It doesn't really matter though.


On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 3:49 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Wikipedia:
> In the summers of 1941 to 1945, during the Second World War, Britain was
> two hours ahead of GMT and operating on British Double Summer Time(BDST).
> To bring this about, the clocks were not put back by an hour at the end of
> summer in 1940 (BST having started early, on 25 February 1940). In
> subsequent years, clocks continued to be advanced by one hour each spring
> (to BDST) and put back by an hour each autumn (to BST). On 15 July 1945,
> the clocks were put back by an hour, so BDST reverted to BST; the clocks
> were put back by an additional hour on 7 October 1945, so BST reverted to
> GMT for the winter of 1945.
>
>
>
> GR begins in 1944, doesn’t it?
> BDST began at 2 am on Sunday, April 2 that year.
>
> So if they are begrudging the hour of sleep because of the time change,
> then that fixes the date as April 2nd.
>
> Or maybe this seance was called earlier than normal, making everyone come
> in early, but there’s no sign of that in the text at all, whereas there are
> 2 references to BDST in the preceding few pages.
>
> (It was fun to revisit one of the best jokes in the book: Constant
> Slothrop’s son Variable)
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