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Letter: Letters : The longest month

Published 28 March 1998

From David Wild

Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

In the item on CompuServe’s “750 free hours in a month” offer
(Feedback, 14 March),
you give the maximum length of a month as being 744 hours.

This isn’t correct. The true maximum length in Britain is 745 hours in
October, as this has a 25-hour day when the clocks are put back.

Issue no. 2127 published 28 March 1998

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