Posted by Owen Roberts on August 27, 2008 at 19:26:57 user OwenRoberts.
In Reply to: Re: PD, ML and GN (was Great Northern? Real!) posted by Jock on August 27, 2008 at 11:32:01:
AR seemed to have much trouble with his dates. I did suggest, in a MM article on SD, that his work went through so many revisions that it was easy to lose track of the dates, especially when rushing to meet a Christmas publishing dateline.
Nowdays we would use some form of event geography software to maintain the relationship beteen dates, in AR's day it was all mandraulic.
In a German edition of SA (which I bought cheaply for the pictures - my German is appalling) they appeared to have solved one problem by omitting the year altogether, although my knowledge of German dates is unsound.