Is there a different calendar in operation in the arctic regions? No.
Anybody in Nome, Alaska or Novaya Zemlya can know when the seventh day of the week is. This argument is one of the weakest arguments I've come across. And, logically, it fails even if the premises were true. All it would prove is either that only those in the arctic are relieved of the obligation (is the reader in the arctic? No? Then...) or it proves that if ONE person anywhere anytime cannot keep a commandment then nobody everywhere everytime is required to keep the commandment. So, orphans can't keep the 5th commandment therefore none of us have to?
But for those who might still be thinking the arctic argument has any merit, here:
The Bible defines the Sabbath as the seventh day of the week. The Bible defines a day as beginning at evening, running from one evening to the next. So the Sabbath occurs every seventh evening.
What is evening? In most areas, the evening occurs as the sun approaches the horizon, then "sets", then night occurs. The key though is that evening is the period just before and just after sunset.
Does the sun set in the arctic? Is there an evening in the arctic?
YES.
Even though in the extreme north and south lattitudes the sun does not go BELOW the horizon in summer, it nevertheless descends toward the horizon, then rises again. It is in fact sunset and sunrise, it just does not go below the horizon. The Bible never said the sun must go below the horizon (or rise above the horizon in winter). So there IS a daily sunset, a daily evening, in the arctic. The evenings occur about every 24 hours apart, just as they do everywhere else on the planet. Therefore, Sabbath keeping is no different in the arctic than anywhere else, except it doesn't get AS DARK at night in the summer or AS BRIGHT during the day in winter.
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