On 2020-06-13, at 03:08:41, Robert Elz wrote:
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:42:08 -0700 From: Paul Eggert
| But this is curious, as that story also makes sense only if clocks | were set back at 00:00 "old time"
Huh?
I haven't read the story in question (I don't understand a word of French, well, merde, maybe just one or two) but I don't see how when the clocks were set backwards makes any difference at all. Simply setting clocks backwards means a later event can seem to have happened at an earlier time, so a child could be born at time X, at X+5 the clocks are set backwards 20, at X+10 (original clock time - which is now X-10 shown on the clocks) the child dies, hence lived from X to X-10. What the value of X is is irrelevant.
In estate law it might matter whether that child dies before the age of majority. But that's a concern only if the days, not just the hours, are out of sequence. ("De minimis non curat lex") -- gil