PARADOX OF TIME
THE CLIPPER'S TRIP FROM SUNDAY TO SATURDAY The international date lino, arbitrarily fixed for purposes of tune reckonings, is a prolific source of paradox. The latest and most striking illustration of tli is is provided by tho fact that, although the Pan-American Clipper left Auckland for Pago Pago at 4.17 o'clock 011 Sunday morning, she arrived at her destination at 5.11 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. The bare announcement of dates and time seems to indicate that pride in the amazing speed of air travel has been carried to excess. However, the Clipper, shortly after leaving Auckland yesterday morning, would cross the degree of longitude representing the international date line and in doing i so would automatically fly out of Sunaay back into Saturday. Her crew will have seen two Saturdays and two Sundays all in the one week-end.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22694, 5 April 1937, Page 11
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141PARADOX OF TIME New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22694, 5 April 1937, Page 11
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