Show lan ian to make sea da day y like land day D ay rine rine revolution makes old Shell backs gasp tf I 1 irk if it e ever er there ans a 0 re f existence where tradition ir it ts is on the sea suggest to a nosier a it change in the customary ne if iou ou wish asli to time a perfect rio rn of that classic let well uell h nione alone all of which ie is apro of the recent government order tinie on board ship shall be albu I 1 as time Is calculated on land Is from midnight until the follow nad midnight night instead of from noon coon non oon as has been the custom for its ls la Is one of those questions which at M simply of two sides there Is her tier time nor space for any other aties tittles one finds one side and ne the other and there Is ing else no middle ground no ard six of one and halt half a n of the other are good figures cp resent the two camps different world mt of all men who go do down n to the in ships feel that theirs Is a dif ct nt marld from that of the land ers In there Is somes to be said on that score theirs et ours Is dry in more way ways than they tell time by bells while hile we at a clock they go topside and w 0 hen we go up and do down n stair stairs y r steer by starboard and port ery where here except in the navy reas right and left tells direction us um truly one mist be a sailor know what Is going on aboard p and chief among these differ es of life at sea and life on land be been ben n the reckoning of a R day low ow at sea where there are no et sign signs or tire ads to guide the way you tell where you are to say a sum in mathematics look the while to see if the sun Is ising the me meridian as it should v when hen it Is noon obviously in this using world the sun Is a pretty tile ble thing to rely on except for hua nobody has been able to innee it materially jo 10 after the mariners have made re e that the sun te Is running on sched t they can figure where they are d I 1 what time it ought to be nay Is neared with the references that a i be made at midnight this Is much ire re logical comete comets and meteors d I 1 similar wanderers aay may disturb stars so it Is better to rely on the sun but you can t see the sun at midnight so there s the lie rub for all these centuries since the phoenician astronomers first rained gained influence over the captain captains and galley galleys of ancient timea times day has begun at noon on board ship not at midnight and now tain governments have ordered he the change to go into effect this coming january meant much work it will mean a great deal of work and a lot of changing of tables and mathematical calculations said captain hartley of the leviathan all the men who hae learned their navi gallon gation by the old rule will have to unlearn that and learn the new he ile laughed a seagoing laugh and added some fellow aill figure that he has his ship just off chicago As for making the time conform to land time that would require a lot ot cha chances ne tune lime castern standard etan dard time daylight saying 81 time greenwich line time and various others it 11 would be great it if all the times were made to conform as they ought to t by the way I 1 angland Is conceded to be the coun try which sets he lie pace in things maritime she together with ith france oer anany spain and italy derided decided that the chane chance would be a it good thine thing then the united states followed alt suit and changed chan ROil the nautical almanac despite protests proto ete from some of the old shell backs to whom the change was objectionable many of the captains however are not disturbed by the new order errors in dates have been made in the past because of the old methode ode and it s reasonable to assume that after we become accustomed to the 1 new euch such error errors will not occur said one |