As early as the 1930s, stories have addressed the issue of the Earth moving to a different position when a time traveler moves through time. This story addresses the issue by saying that the time traveler appears only once per year, but that doesn't really solve the problem for so many reasons, starting with the fact that a given position on the surface of the Earth will not be at “the same” position in the subsequent year.
Then that winter they came down for Christmas and John said they had something new. He
was really excited. A temporal displacement, he called it; some kind of time effect.
“Do you like me?
I’m attractive, am’t I?” She opened the blanket to look at
herself. “I mean, am I attractive to you? Oh, Dovy, s-say
something! I’ve come so far, I chartered three jets, I, I,—Oh,
Dovy d-darling!”