Comments on: What Time is it?

By: william s janoch

william s janoch — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:10:06 +0000

I hope we don’t go to Zulu [gmt]with the plus or minus times working in the supply side of the dod I had to know local time as zulu+/- what ever it was the east coast is z-6 if I remember but don’t ask me to work it out again as its more trouble than its worth to me but no more daylite savings time I’m with you on that

By: E. Phil Haley

E. Phil Haley — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:10:14 +0000

I guess it doesn’t seem all that confusing to me. There’s 24 hours in a day and 24 different time zones. Makes sense. One of the primary reasons for the creation of GMT and the resulting time zones revolved around the search for a method of determining Longitude. Ships had no problem determining Latitude, via declination of the sun, moon or stars, but Longitude was a different matter. Since there are 360° of longitude around the earth it follows that each 15° of longitude constitutes another 1 hour time-zone. Read the book “Longitude” by Dava Sobel; it won’t change your mind regarding the time zones but it’ll give you some perspective and its interesting to boot.

Doing away with all the time zones will be far more confusing than keeping them (people sleep at night and eat lunch around noon, you still have to know when that occurs in different areas) although I have no problem with eliminating Daylight Savings Time and adopting Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), more commonly referred to as Zulu, as suggested by Everitt Mickey. Here’s a link to a good explanation of Z-Time: http://www.maybeck.com/ztime/

I also noticed you made reference to the cold temperature 20° Fahrenheit. Having trouble converting to Celsius?

By: Wayne Weisser

Wayne Weisser — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:09:59 +0000

Even though we only deal with four and Canada with five, keeping track of who is on DST and who isn’t can be confusing. It would make things easier when going coast to coast or when scheduling appointments. Especially places like Kentucky where the timezone lines cuts through the middle somewhere and since I always forget exactly where that line is, I always have to look it up.

By: Everitt Mickey

Everitt Mickey — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:38:46 +0000

ahem…….Zulu Time.

The USAF has been using it for years. The USAF has to worry about ALL the time zones. We truckers only deal with a few.

We could do the same. Just start using Zulu. (GMT).

No fuss …no muss….no guvment rulemaking.

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