Mudcat Café message #3830308

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Thread #161188 Message #3830308
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
04-Jan-17 - 03:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Leap Seconds, and GPS longtitude
Subject: RE: BS: Leap Seconds, and GPS longtitude

Of course, between Dodgeson's 'thought experiment' (1860) and the establishment of the International Dateline (1884) we have Jules Verne's 'Around The World in Eighty Days' (1873) which deals with a similar anomaly.