Zulu Time

[Lethal.Ambition]

Hello everyone!

I have a question that has been bugging me in the past few days. How can I turn my local time to Zulu time? and what is GMT time? Thanks. (US Eastern Coast, Daylight Savings time)

[Scottler]

Hey dude....GMT is Greenwich Mean Time.  Basically it's the time in England.  The reason for this is to set a standard time that everyone can use worldwide.

Here on the east coast (I'm in NY), we're GMT-4 (so if it's noon there, it's 8AM here)...we do change at one point so that we're five hours behind (GMT-5), but I never remember when that is.

As for zulu, I don't THINK it's the same as GMT, but I could be mistaken.  There's a thread about 2 weeks back that addresses this very issue.

[BFMF]

I believe ZULU, GMT, UTC, ect all mean the same

[Scottler]

See?

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lol

[Craig.]

hyperion, its almost always 5 hours between UK time and eastern time, the only time it isnt is when the clocks go forward and back at differant times and even then its only a few days that they arnt 5 hours differant

[WebbPA]

Maybe this link will help.  They seem to know what they're talking about http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/que ... utime.html

[Fozzer]

Zulu time.....
Robertsons thick-cut marmalade on toast.... ...!

....Ozzy will recognise it... ...!
LOL...!

Cheers... ...!
Paul.
(England).

[Lethal.Ambition]

Link does work

[Lethal.Ambition]

OK it just did but it doesn't explain how to turn eveyrthing to normal.......OK it is 3:13 right now, what is that in Zulu time? 1113?

[Scottler]

Okay, if I'm understanding this correctly:


It's 3:13 PM ET...that means it's 8:13 PM in England.

That would make it 2013 GMT.

GMT and Zulu time being the same, that means that if it's 3:13 here, it's 2013 Zulu.

3:13 would be 1513, Zulu would be 2013.

[delta]

by the way, zulu time uses a 24 hour base (also known as military time), not 12 hours.  8:00 pm would be 2000.

[fisharno]

Most of you guys are real resourceful, to begin with, but for the newbies, this is where I get a lot of my information about dang near anything:

www.ask.com

Jeeves the Butler is really good at his job!

[Lethal.Ambition]

huh? I thought I was -5 hours now because of Daylights TIme, would it be 3-5 would -10 which is 10 AM which is 1013 GMT, which is 1013 Zulu time?

[tim l lam 10386]

Okay, right now it's 1701 EDT (that's US eastern time w/ daylight savings), which translates to 2101 GMT, which also translates to 2101 Zulu.  Right now under DST, we're -4 hours GMT

When the eastern coast no longer observes Daylight Savings Time, we're back to -5 GMT.  GMT(Zulu) does not observe DST.

Hope that helps.

[Lethal.Ambition]

but you are adding 4, instead of subtracting 4, which would be 00 hours military which would be 0001 Zulu......I am so lost