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Larry Cranford
Advanced Member
Username: Larrycranford
Post Number: 293
Registered: 06-2006
Posted From: 69.111.110.169
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 11:13 pm: | |
I thought I would throw this out for just no reason at all. Before 1949, China was divided into five time zones. After the communist takeover, when they became the Peoples Republic of China, they changed and made all of China into one time zone called Beijing Time. There are a few remote areas in the western portion that have their own time zone. Beijing time is GMT+8.
Larry  |
Bill Gast
Advanced Member
Username: Actionwriter
Post Number: 188
Registered: 12-2008
Posted From: 96.8.222.198
| | Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 07:23 pm: | |
Don beat me to it--I always used ZULU when on active duty. The answer to "what time?" was always "ZULU minus" or plus 3, 8 whatever. On my beloved C54 we had a chrono that always had Zulu showing. |
Phyllis DeLancey
Senior Member
Username: Phyllis
Post Number: 2685
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 99.38.8.35
| | Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 12:49 pm: | |
John, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don, good Idea. Now if the plane will just be there when it says. I think I need an extra day to make this flight, but with it being a C5 I may get it. Be our luck it won't brake this time. |
John D.
Moderator
Username: John_d
Post Number: 4295
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 95.208.80.143
| | Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 10:03 am: | |
Excellent suggestion Don - my watch has two time zones so one is now ZULU!! |
D.B.M UK
Senior Member
Username: Overlandrover
Post Number: 5851
Registered: 04-2005
Posted From: 88.105.121.239
| | Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 05:44 am: | |
Phyllis, do like some of the air crews, set your watch to Zulu time and leave it, that way you will always have it. Me, I have a watch that will show two times, so I always put English time and EST in it. |
John D.
Moderator
Username: John_d
Post Number: 4293
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 95.208.80.143
| | Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 04:34 am: | |
Phyllis, we all get confused! 
In summary (I think):
Zulu / East Coast (DST or Summer) / East Coast (Winter)
12:00 / 08:00 / 07:00
.... now if you're departing from Arizona .......!!!! |
Phyllis DeLancey
Senior Member
Username: Phyllis
Post Number: 2683
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 99.38.8.35
| | Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 04:25 am: | |
Ya'll have me soooooooooooo confused I'll never get to a plane on time if they say zuzu time. |
Dakota Ray
Senior Member
Username: Rhammer
Post Number: 423
Registered: 05-2007
Posted From: 69.62.147.217
| | Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 01:48 am: | |
Just went backwards on the time--I hit send 15 seconds before my brain really worked it out.
Jerry you are correct. It is 5 hours and 4 hours in the summer. |
Dakota Ray
Senior Member
Username: Rhammer
Post Number: 422
Registered: 05-2007
Posted From: 69.62.147.217
| | Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 01:42 am: | |
Here is a link for some explanations!!
This is basic as it is Wikipedia.
Jerry look under time zones. The other links like http://www.worldtimezone.com explain it also. Basically we leap ahead for local time in the spring but Zulu does not and so it is 4 hours from the east coast instead of 5.
Look at this link for UTC, history, etc!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time |
William F. Landry
Member
Username: Skippercdruscg
Post Number: 15
Registered: 06-2008
Posted From: 24.22.199.218
| | Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 01:30 am: | |
Hate to be a nitpicker, but didn't the term "GMT" get dropped a few years back and now it is called UTC - Universal Coordinated Time (NOT UCT as you might expect!). I guess it is properly referred to as Universal Time, Coordinated. My 2 cents!! |
Bob Dart
Senior Member
Username: Bobdart
Post Number: 1463
Registered: 06-2005
Posted From: 76.29.20.95
| | Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 01:09 am: | |
Ed, add my thanks for the computer clock information which I didn't know either. |
Jerry Hunt
Senior Member
Username: Exflier49
Post Number: 413
Registered: 07-2006
Posted From: 71.100.79.231
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 10:56 pm: | |
Dakota,
I'm clear on Z time. What prompted the question was John D. stating that the
"East Coast is currently 5 hours behind Zulu" when it is actually 4 behind and you saying
"The answer is 7 AM East Coast Local on Daylight Savings Time or 8 AM East Coast Local on Standard Time" when the opposite is true.
Or am I all screwed up (which has happened before)? |
KSYR
Senior Member
Username: Ksyr
Post Number: 641
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 74.33.194.28
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 12:18 pm: | |
ED WILLIAMS, THANKS, ALWAYS LEARNING SOMETHING NEW ABOUT COMPUTERS. |
ed williamson
Intermediate Member
Username: Regnav
Post Number: 144
Registered: 07-2009
Posted From: 76.114.109.206
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 09:37 am: | |
If you double click on the time shown in the lower right hand corner of your browser, assuming IE, you can then locate GMT and/or show the hour deviation from GMT for all the world time zones. You can also create a second clock for any time zone that will appear when you single click on the time, in lower right corner.
For example, I have my second clock set to Japan time which shows, right now, the time in Japan to be 1933 this evening while it is 0633 here in EST zone.
I don't think I explained that very well but if you check it out it is pretty well self explanatory.
The military, in all comms that I am aware of, always uses GMT, or ZULU as it is used, in the heading. |
Phyllis DeLancey
Senior Member
Username: Phyllis
Post Number: 2682
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 99.38.8.35
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 01:26 am: | |
Ed was that a test to see if my brain is still in the coma or if it is working lol??????????????? Thanks the 7 a m is what I was looking for. |
Ed Williams
Senior Member
Username: Hooter55
Post Number: 705
Registered: 11-2007
Posted From: 24.96.140.175
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 11:47 pm: | |
Phyllis....I knew if I sent you that time in ZULU you would ask!! LOL |
Ed Williams
Senior Member
Username: Hooter55
Post Number: 704
Registered: 11-2007
Posted From: 24.96.140.175
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 11:47 pm: | |
http://www.worldtimezone.com/ |
Dakota Ray
Senior Member
Username: Rhammer
Post Number: 418
Registered: 05-2007
Posted From: 69.62.147.217
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 11:27 pm: | |
Hey Jerry
It did not!!
1200 Zulu in England is the same 1200 Zulu on the east coast or on the west coast or even in Japan.
It is the conversion of Zulu to local time that has a one hour adjustment for daylight savings time.
I can only assume that Phyllis was looking for a local time.
Nice thinking but try the conversion. |
Jerry Hunt
Senior Member
Username: Exflier49
Post Number: 411
Registered: 07-2006
Posted From: 71.100.79.231
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 10:47 pm: | |
When did Greenwich start observing DST? |
Dakota Ray
Senior Member
Username: Rhammer
Post Number: 416
Registered: 05-2007
Posted From: 69.62.147.217
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 09:08 pm: | |
Phyllis,
The answer is 7 AM East Coast Local on Daylight Savings Time or 8 AM East Coast Local on Standard Time.
I hope that gives you the answer you needed! |
John D.
Moderator
Username: John_d
Post Number: 4284
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 95.208.80.143
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 07:36 pm: | |
Depends on where YOU are and time of year.
Zulu is GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
http://www.worldtimezone.com/
East Coast is currently 5 hours behind Zulu. |
Phyllis DeLancey
Senior Member
Username: Phyllis
Post Number: 2681
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 99.38.8.35
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 07:20 pm: | |
OK I have enough problems with the time in the states, so need some help. If it is 12:00 zulu what time is that on the east coast?
Thanks |
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