He directly off the bat: "What are you, Nikolai Fedorovich, State heads to cheat? I am forty years old with money do, grayer on this matter, and is the first time I've seen! "Well I'm certainly in ambition. And he was so ehidtsey asked me: "How many days in February?" I say-. "This year, because it is not a leap year, twenty-eight." "And what did you write that in February, twenty-nine, and for an extra day expedition across the field, salary, and accrued and currency paid? "Then I remembered the line and change dates. "Pavel Nikolayevich, you know, the Earth is spherical and rotates around the Earth's axis " But I said it, he suddenly rises to his full height and mighty Grenadier screams that our howler in the fog. "I – said – ten classes finished, I have not finished the military finance higher education, and I myself know that the Earth is round, and you're here every geography shortage does not cover your " And he went lecturing I have all the rules of accounting, and science. Continuation was, of course, in the office of our director Aleksei Fedorovich Krechetova. He immediately figured out what was wrong, and we together have tried to explain Pavel Nikolayevich that going through a change of dates for circumnavigation, there are two days from one date, as to the days that have arisen due to Earth's rotation around its axis, added one more day crawling through the ship around the globe. But Pavel stood firm: "Aleksei Fedorovich, perhaps, in geography and possibly to twice repeated the same date but accounting was not like this and never will.