I read, July 22! This was distressing! Was I like Alice in Wonderland?
Did time go backward?
Surely, I had dated August 3.

Could I be in error twelve days?
And then I perceived that twelve days was just the difference of old and new calendars.
"How many times I had taught students that the Russians still counted their time by the 'old style,' but had never learned it myself! And so I was obliged to teach myself new lessons in science.

The earth turns on its axis just the same in Russia as in Boston, but you don't get out of the sunlight at the Boston sunset hour.
"When the thermometer stands at 32 in St.Petersburg, it does not freeze as it does in Boston.

On the contrary, it is very warm in St.
Petersburg, for it means what 104 does in Boston.

And if you leave London on the 22d of July, and are five days on the way to St.
Petersburg, a week after you get there it is still the 22d of July! And we complain that the day is too short! "Another peculiarity.