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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
How to you convert form UTC to ZULU?

Unless you're a surveyor or doing astronomical observations, for all practical purposes UTC, Greenwich Mean Time, and Zulu Time are the same.

95 posted on 08/30/2004 4:56:18 AM PDT by Chemist_Geek ("Drill, R&D, and conserve" should be our watchwords! Energy independence for America!)
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To: Chemist_Geek
Unless you're a surveyor or doing astronomical observations, for all practical purposes UTC, Greenwich Mean Time, and Zulu Time are the same.

Irony is lost on some people. Actually UTC and ZULU are exactly the same thing. Converting from UTC to ZULU is like converting from Hertz to Cycles per Second. The U. S. Naval Observatory denigrades the term GMT. It is imprecisely and ambiguously defined. So unless you're a news reader for the Beeb, you shouldn't use the term < affected snotty Oxbridge accent > Greenwich Mean Time. < /affected snotty Oxbridge accent >

103 posted on 08/30/2004 5:27:42 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Imagine no hypothetical situations.)
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