Add to ORKGIn a recent paper by Thomas Jurke, it was proved that the asymptotic behaviour of a solution to the polarized Gowdy equation in the expanding direction is of the form α ln t + β + t−1/2ν + O(t−3/2), where α and β are constants and ν is a solution to the standard wave equation with zero mean value. Furthermore, it was proved that α, β and ν uniquely determine the solution. Here we wish to point out that given α, β and ν with the above properties, one can construct a solution to the polarized Gowdy equation with the above asymptotics. In other words, we show that α, β and ν constitute data at the moment of infinite expansion. We then use this fact to make the observation that there are polarized Gowdy spacetimes such that in the areal time co...