Discounting atmospheric effects and / or the effects of physics & gravity on light particles / light rays.... it's neigh on impossible to be certain of when is sunrise & sunset when sitting aboard a platform that is moving at 600 mph and / or taking account of ones groundspeed & altitude therein. Thus it's all something of a guess and therein some minutes added as a buffer on either side of ones guesstimated sunrise / sunset is probably good enough... and surely any lengthening of the period of fasting will simply add to the piety experienced by the adherents of the 'Religion of Peace'.
Last edited by Old King Coal; 6th Jul 2014 at 16:53.
Reason: Because TwoTone-7 didn't like me referring to adherents as Mohammedan's