Posted by Tom Napier on January 29, 2012 at 18:57:31 user Didymus.
In Reply to: problem with dates posted by Ed Kiser on January 29, 2012 at 15:07:34:
I pretty much beat the subject of the dating of PM to death in the Winter 2003 edition of Mixed Moss. My grounds for thinking Aug 6 was not a Sunday were that Jacky was going to a farmers' market on that day. Busy, if impious, boatmen I could accept but hardly a Sunday market. That made the year 1932. I then found that the position of the moon on the night of the burglary obliged the year to be 1933. And yes, I did note that it was all fiction.
I had earlier attempted to date WH, see the 2002 edition of Mixed Moss. Based on the position of the moon I concluded that the year must be 1931. Over the years, several other people have played with the subject of authorial temporal accuracy without much success.