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Zulu Time
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:16 pmby 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)
Re: Zulu Time
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:20 pmby 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.
Re: Zulu Time
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:31 pmby BFMF
I believe ZULU, GMT, UTC, ect all mean the same
Re: Zulu Time
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:35 pmby Scottler
See?
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Re: Zulu Time
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 1:12 pmby 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
Re: Zulu Time
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 1:20 pmby WebbPA
Maybe this link will help. They seem to know what they're talking about
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/que ... utime.html
Re: Zulu Time
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 1:26 pmby Fozzer
Zulu time.....
Robertsons thick-cut marmalade on toast....
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....Ozzy will recognise it...
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LOL...!
Cheers...
...!
Paul.
(England).
Re: Zulu Time
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 2:07 pmby Lethal.Ambition
Link does work
Re: Zulu Time
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 2:11 pmby 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?
Re: Zulu Time
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 2:25 pmby 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.
Re: Zulu Time
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 2:37 pmby 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.
Re: Zulu Time
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 2:53 pmby 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.comJeeves the Butler is really good at his job!
Re: Zulu Time
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 3:16 pmby 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?
Re: Zulu Time
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 4:01 pmby 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.
Re: Zulu Time
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Tue Jul 22, 2003 4:11 pmby 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
