Re: CHAT: Timezones was The English/French counting system
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 17, 2003, 4:09 |
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Phillip Driscoll scripsit:
> Isn't this sometimes called Zulu Time, or am I thinking of something else?
Yes. Zulu is the ICAO phonetic alphabet (as in alpha, bravo, charlie, etc.)
for Z, and Z is the one-letter code for UTC. Other zones have one-letter
codes as well: A is UTC+1, B is UTC+2, etc. etc.; then M is UTC-1, N is
UTC-2, etc. etc. Y is not used.
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