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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: and a Gallian day is only half as long as a terrestrial day,
there must be a hundred and twenty days in every month?"
"No doubt you are right, professor," said Count Timascheff;
"but do you not think that the use of a new calendar such as this
would practically be very troublesome?"
"Not at all! not at all! I do not intend to use any other,"
was the professor's bluff reply.
After pondering for a few moments, the captain spoke again.
"According, then, to this new calendar, it isn't the middle
of May at all; it must now be some time in March."
"Yes," said the professor, "to-day is the 26th
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