Why I like Zulu Time

[redleghunter]

Zulu Time

It is always right no matter where you are in the world.

Current “Zulu” Military Time

No clocks to fall back or spring forward.

What does ZULU time mean?
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.

What is ZULU time?

 

[Norbert L]

Oh come on. We had it great when Copernicus wasn't around. When the Sun, Moon and stars revolved around me and not the other way around.

 

[SkyWriting]

Zulu Time

It is always right no matter where you are in the world.

The Perfect Alarm Clock

On the subject of time......find or buy a cracked screen smart phone. Turn off all the functions and turn on the clock on the security screen.

With the apps off this phone will hold a charge for about 3 weeks! Set it next to your bed and set your choice of alarms. You can control the volume, increasing volume, the ring, everything. It stays dark till you bump it or pick it up, then briefly shows the time. Set it for Zulu time!

Its the perfect alarm clock, running on battery, only alarms on days you choose, and you can use it as a night light, or a flashlight, or what ever. If you leave the wi-fi on you still have internet connection, but that drains the power faster. Plug it in and you have full on-line functions. I prefer no wi-fi so no interruptions and 21 days of charge. My regular phone alarms about 3 minutes later so I can find it and throw it in my work bag. Sometimes my reg phone is in a pocket, or charging, or forgotten in the car, so it alarms and I can track it befor work.

But my bed alarm is always in one spot doing it's job.

 

[redleghunter]

Oh come on. We had it great when Copernicus wasn't around. When the Sun, Moon and stars revolved around me and not the other way around.

Does Zulu time bring us back in time?

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

Maybe we should just scrap all our time systems. I mean, dividing into 24 hrs of 60 minutes each is a bit silly. Why not divide a day into nice metric time units? We can divide a day into hundreds and each divided itself in a decimal fashion, like we non-Americans do for everything else?

I like the nice Romanitas of hours, but the twelve hours of the Romans became longer or shorter depending on the time of year and daylight available (longer in summer, shorter in winter), with night divided into four watches.

Timezones only came into use in the 19th century when railroads came along. Before then, whenever a clocktower was set-up, they just set Noon at when the shadows disappeared at that specific locality. If we scrap the day and night association, we can just let people get up at whatever hour sunrise would be there (as in Zulu time), but why do this at all? Why not revert to local time everywhere, with technology automatically adjusting time according to the longitude of the sender? Then Noon will truly be noon, instead of some convention. Why must time be coupled to a celestial body, instead of just the earth's own rotation, which is what creates the day in the first place?