Thanks for looking at it. I'll update the article to say that this is what is currently happening.

If this is already happening how does it handle long delays i.e. one month.
What happens to bitcoins created and spent in this case? Obviously the transactions are voided, but the economic activity has already taken place and the money would have been distributed through the network as wages, purchases or gifts.

Seems that for areas of frequent connectivity dropouts it may be better to have their own currencies and block chains with an exchange rate.

Is there any documentation for how block chain management works?