When they say that Cinderella's carriage turns back into a pumpkin at midnight, is that, like, midnight civil time? Or local astronomical midnight? Does that take leap seconds into account?
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If she travelled west at the speed that the earth rotates, would the carriage never turn into a pumpkin, because it would never experience a local astronomical midnight? Or would it turn into a pumpkin when she crossed the international date line? Or is it the local astronomical time at the location where the spell was cast?
What if she took the carriage to the north pole during the summer? When would the carriage turn into a pumpkin?
Was the spell cast so that the carriage would turn into a pumpkin after it had experienced some number of seconds that happened to coincide with "midnight" by some definition? What if she took the carriage at relativistic velocity?
