I'm presumably not the first person to notice this point, but don't recall seeing it mentioned in the fforum before... I don't recall seeing it clarified or corrected in Jasper's own comments about TEA, either.

Chapter 27, page 279 in the UK paperback edition.

When Thursday and Bowden are inadvertently time-travelling after the incident on the M1, and they ask somebody whom they encounter during a stop what the current date is, the reply leads to them having the following conversation:

'We're three weeks in the past?' he queried.
'Or fifty-six weeks in the future."
''Or one hundred and eight.'

Does this mean that their calendar includes years of fifty-nine weeks [ & maybe afew extra days each] as well as the fifty-two-week [& one extra day, or two days if it's a leapyear] years that are standard for our Earth?

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Hmm. I must have remembered it wrongly. I thought that the bloophole was essentially that he'd add the three weeks to the 52 rather than taken it away. They must still have 52 weeks in a year as 108-56 = 52.

That would only work if it were 4 weeks rather than 3 though.

Unless they're near the middle of the week, such that those 1 or 2 extra days make them round off to a different number.



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