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Originally Posted by Gibus
I probably misspoke.
USS Trout have been sank BEFORE his victim, can not have sent that message. It has nothing to do with my time zone.
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How can you say that? Suppose a historian in Hawaii recorded incidents in local time. But the incident really happened two hours "earlier" because they were 30º east where local time was two hours earlier. So your report of the time of sinking might be 5:30 pm and the sub commander receiving immediate word of the sinking would receive it at 3:30.
To you it would look like he heard about the sinking two hours before it happened and you would poo-poo the report saying there's some defect in the space-time continuum.
Similarly, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 6, 1941. But because on the mainland US the time was December 7 that is the date we all remember. In Japan it was December 6. Time zones are integral to our understanding of events and their effects are often ignored in what we claim is possible or impossible.
Therefore your claim that TMO is wrong cannot be established as true.
And the game reports that the Trout sank the Japanese ship. The message didn't necessarily come from the Trout. Plus, JANAC found all kinds of claimed sinkings that actually didn't take place, misidentified targets and other SNAFUs of in-combat reporting. It's entirely possible that the Trout could have claimed a sinking when the actual sinking took place after the Trout was sunk itself. War is a messy and confusing business.