It's all very distressing, the way these wacky scholars keep going back and forth on the date. Last time, the big news was that, based on the dating of the wine vats, a coin found in the ruins, and the clothing people were wearing, combined with an alternate way to read the date in Pliny Jr.'s writing, the eruption would have been in October, not August.

I should be excited about reading the latest research. Instead, I am rather irritated by what this is doing to my comic's timeline! My poor confused characters! :}