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Letter: Tripping gaily over the Date Line

Published 22 April 2015

From Eric Kvaalen

You say the launch of a mission to the International Space Station mission would be “on Friday”, and in the next paragraph “on 28 March” (28 March, p 6).

Could it be that it was 28 March in Kazakhstan but still Friday in the US?
Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

Issue no. 3018 published 25 April 2015

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