I do not get the impression LMB is a details-and-calendars sort of person. Well, neither am I, to tell the truth, and I entirely understand the temptation to be vague and hope nobody gets too worried about it, but when you're trying to slot something in on top of a story that's already there, you have to try to make sure you're not contradicting anything. I leaned very heavily on Tel for that with AVD, because she most definitely is a details person, and she saved me from many a timeline catastrophe.

With the extra hours in a day thing, I worry about what it will do to people's biochemical clocks. More so on Komarr, with their 19-hour day, which you'd think would require a bit of genetic engineering to make manageable for humans to live comfortably (and then what do genetically-modified Komarrans (like Duv?) do when they find themselves on Barrayar?). But I don't feel in any need of extra hours in the day myself: my son would just stay awake longer and bedtime would be later ;-).