A question of time

[CoffeeGuy]

When referring to time, 1400 zulu. What does zulu mean ? Where did the name come from ?

[CoffeeGuy]

As soon as I posted this, I realized that a simple google search would tell me what I wanted to know.

[yoda313]

Well what does it mean???? Share the link

[MackemX]

Google is your friend 8)

[CoffeeGuy]

But, for anyone interested in knowing...

The world is divided into basically 24 time zones. For easy reference in communications, a letter of the alphabet has been assigned to each time zone. The "clock" at Greenwich, England is used as the standard clock for international reference of time in communications, military, aviation, maritime and other activities that cross time zones. The letter designator for this clock is Z.

Times written in military time (24 hour format) are four digits, such as, 1830Z (6:30 pm) with the Zulu suffix. Note that the phonetic alphabet is used for the letter Z (Zulu). This time is usually referred to as Zulu Time because of the letter assigned to this time zone. Its official name is Coordinated Universal Time or UTC. This time zone had previously been called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) but was replaced with UTC in 1972 as the official world time standard changed. While GMT is based on Earth's rotation and celestial measurements, UTC is a based on cesium-beam atomic clocks. The two clocks are rarely more than a second apart as leap seconds are applied to UTC.

[MackemX]

@Yoda313

Zulu Time is the world time. It is also known as UT or UTC (Universal Time (Co-ordinated)). All over the planet it is the same time. There are no timezones for UTC. UTC also has no Daylight Saving Time or Summer Time. Also the date is UTC dependend. That means if you live in NewYork and it is 10pm Saturday night (standard) and you would convert the time to UTC you would get 3am Sunday morning as time and date.

UTC is used in plane and ship navigation. UTC is also used by international shortwave broadcasters in their broadcast and program schedules. Ham radio operators, shortwave listeners, the military, and utility radio services are also big users of UTC.

UTC is based on GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Greenwich mean time was based upon the time at the zero degree meridian that crossed through Greenwich, England. GMT was first used by the Royal Navy in the 19th century.

UTC uses a 24-hour system of time notation. "1:00 a.m." in UTC is expressed as 0100, pronounced "zero one hundred." Fifteen minutes after 0100 is expressed as 0115; thirty-eight minutes after 0100 is 0138 (usually pronounced "zero one thirty-eight"). The time one minute after 0159 is 0200. The time one minute after 1259 is 1300 (pronounced "thirteen hundred"). This continues until 2359. One minute later is 0000 ("zero hundred"), and the start of a new UTC day.

:edit: I see coffeeguy posted but I guess that's why Google is my homepage as I use it quite often

[yoda313]

Thanks coffeeguy and mackemx

[MackemX]

no problem as I didn't know myself. Google was the first thing I fired up when coffeguy kept it to himself

my Google is your friend comment was at coffeeguy using Google as I think Google is great but you posted before me