Simviation Forum - Zulu Time

Reply #15 - Jul 22^nd, 2003 at 5:24pm

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10 AM which is 1013 GMT, which is 1013 Zulu time?

THERE is your mistake. 10AM is NOT 1000 GMT....

10AM (ET) is 2PM or 1400 GMT.

Therefore, 10AM (ET) is 1400Z

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Reply #16 - Jul 22^nd, 2003 at 6:06pm

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I should add that in the UK right now we're not using GMT....because of the summer, we're on BST, which is British Summer Time, and is GMT +1. So the difference between EST and BST is 5 hours.

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Reply #17 - Jul 22^nd, 2003 at 7:00pm

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I think I got it.........say it is noon GMT.....it would be 8 ET but out of DST it would be 7 right?

Now it is 7:00 if I add 5 it is 12PM which is 24 military or 00 right? So it would be 0000 zulu, that is not right

7:02 now, so If i add 5 it is 12 PM which is 24 military or 00 right? So it would be 0002

or 2402? well?

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Reply #18 - Jul 22^nd, 2003 at 7:15pm

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I think I got it.........say it is noon GMT.....it would be 8 ET but out of DST it would be 7 right?

Yep, spot on!

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Now it is 7:00 if I add 5 it is 12PM which is 24 military or 00 right? So it would be 0000 zulu, that is not right

7pm ET is 0000 military, yes.

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Reply #19 - Jul 22^nd, 2003 at 7:19pm

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Noooooooooooooo...

7PM is NOT 0000 military, it's 1900 military.

However, military time is irrelevant here, sorta...

You add four hours to your local (ET) time to get GMT.

To convert it to military, you add 12 hours to your local time.

In other words, 7PM local (ET) time would be 2300Z.

7+4=11 (GMT)

11PM military is 2300

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Reply #20 - Jul 22^nd, 2003 at 7:39pm

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Ooooooooops. For some reason I wanted to add 5 hours to make it UK time. My fault! Ignore everything I've just said, apart from what I've just said!

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Reply #21 - Jul 22^nd, 2003 at 7:49pm

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here's a trick, Click the time in the lower right corner of the windows task bar. Then select the Time Zone tab. All the time zones (In XP) are listed with their offset from GMT. no adjustment for DST tho. EST is given as -5 GMT.

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Reply #22 - Jul 22^nd, 2003 at 8:17pm

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GMT, zulu and 'time in England' aren't all the same.

It's now BST in England (British Summer Time) which is 1 hr ahead of GMT (clocks 'spring' forward in the Spring).

Zulu is just 'local time' - so at the moment, in England 1500 zulu is the same as 1400 GMT

When the clocks 'fall' back 1 hr in the Autumn (fall to you foreigners Wink