Jan 28, 2023·edited Jan 28, 2023Liked by Étienne Fortier-Dubois
Was the story set in contemporary China? There everyone uses Beijing time so the clock may say midnight when astronomically it’s 8PM if you are as far west as you can get. Tibet is mountainous so with some help from a nearby peak we might manage to have the moon ‘rising’ while being full and the clock showing midnight.
That's a perfect example of crafting a cool explanation for a storytelling choice! If a writer goes at great lengths like this to have a full moon realistically rise at midnight, that's great — but if they don't say anything like this, it seems highly unlikely that a complex explanation like this is correct.
Was the story set in contemporary China? There everyone uses Beijing time so the clock may say midnight when astronomically it’s 8PM if you are as far west as you can get. Tibet is mountainous so with some help from a nearby peak we might manage to have the moon ‘rising’ while being full and the clock showing midnight.
That's a perfect example of crafting a cool explanation for a storytelling choice! If a writer goes at great lengths like this to have a full moon realistically rise at midnight, that's great — but if they don't say anything like this, it seems highly unlikely that a complex explanation like this is correct.