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Old 07-26-2014, 09:04 PM   #5
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Default Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Absolute Timing/Chronolocation

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Originally Posted by Refplace View Post
Just as daylight time savings is an invention so are calendars.
The way I understand it you knw the ACTUAL time not how it is measured.
So if you travel back 100 years you know that. However you may not know the correct date unless you take into account the actual calendar.
So I was reading too much into the exact wording of the example text: my bad!

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Originally Posted by Refplace View Post
Just as with time zones you may know you went back 4 hours but if you traveled and did not take into account a time zone shift you would be off when comparing against local time.
This one on the other hand contradicts RAW:

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Originally Posted by Basic Set p.35
Neither changes of time zone nor sleep interferes with this ability...
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