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Originally Posted by Catlady
Re the date: it's not about newspapers or Fogg being generally oblivious to anything but his own pursuit; it's about the schedules. The train times--are trains leaving at the same time every day, weekdays and weekends, as they travel the U.S.? Worse, the ships that crossed the Atlantic--how in the world do they arrive a day early, yet find their ship has sailed? It's absurd.
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Good point re: the ship sailing. Certainly trains might be every day, but no way could the same ship be sailing every day!
That being said, if we're going to allow sledges "sailing" across the plains, then we can hardly quibble about the International Date Line being forgotten.
