[Homer_J_Simpson]

I have had this discussion before. On 2/17/08 Cheburashka asked:

"Isn’t this real time MINUS 70 years, Homer?"

I waffled:

"I have struggled with that question. I think you are correct. I guess I will change my descriptions going forward."

But then Michael81Dus chimed in with:

"I think Homer is right. It´s real time (1938) + 70 years. We should not confuse “real time” with “present time”."

I decided to go with that. The point of reference for real time is not the present but the actual time the events occurred. Or, in this case, the actual time the newspaper reported the events.

[aruanan]

I decided to go with that. The point of reference for real time is not the present but the actual time the events occurred. Or, in this case, the actual time the newspaper reported the events.

In that case, the time at which the events occurred and the newspaper reported the events was 1938, not 1938+70. A less-ambiguous description would have been "this day in history 70 years ago."