Is that explicitly mentioned in the book anywhere, or just figured out by fans trying to deal with timelines...?
Nope, just trying to resolve the question of how long Barrayar-the-book lasts. (I started a close-read line by line attempt to get a good timeline and frustrationquit before the end. I should get back to that but...)
Also everyone's age is "older" than we think, which is just funny because Cordelia as POV character is miraculously able to guess how old everyone is and be correct. But handwave for narrative purposes. :P
Does Barrayar use a 27-hour day in practice? I vaguely remember that now.
There's some line somewhere about Simon wanting to retire a day before Aral tries to get himself killed by Galeni, but I don't remember if the line is 26 hours ahead or 27 hours ahead or if it's got the decimal. But it'd make sense if they had internal-hours that were whole numbers for sure.
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Nope, just trying to resolve the question of how long Barrayar-the-book lasts. (I started a close-read line by line attempt to get a good timeline and frustrationquit before the end. I should get back to that but...)
Also everyone's age is "older" than we think, which is just funny because Cordelia as POV character is miraculously able to guess how old everyone is and be correct. But handwave for narrative purposes. :P
There's some line somewhere about Simon wanting to retire a day before Aral tries to get himself killed by Galeni, but I don't remember if the line is 26 hours ahead or 27 hours ahead or if it's got the decimal. But it'd make sense if they had internal-hours that were whole numbers for sure.