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Title: Is APS on Zulu time?
Post by: Fly320s on March 08, 2005, 10:53:41 AM

Looks like the APS time is 5 hours ahead of east coast time.

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Title: Is APS on Zulu time?
Post by: jefnvk on March 08, 2005, 06:06:50 PM

Is Zulu and GMT the same thing?

Title: Is APS on Zulu time?
Post by: Phantom Warrior on March 08, 2005, 06:20:21 PM

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Is Zulu and GMT the same thing?

Yes.  

The military uses the term "Zulu time", I believe.  If I had to guess I would guess it is so they can coordinate operations across time zones without worrying about "Is that 2300 hours my time or 2300 hours your time?"

Title: Is APS on Zulu time?
Post by: tyme on March 08, 2005, 06:37:08 PM

As usual, wikipedia has great articles on the subject.  Everything you ever wanted to know about time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
There's a semantic difference between GMT and UTC, but I don't think anyone really cares these days.