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Re: Time Zone Designations
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2017 Jan 4, 02:14 +0000
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2017 Jan 4, 02:14 +0000
Here's a question for those who have served in the Navy: Are watches (the kind sailors stand, not the kind on your wrist) synchronized to local time? In other words, if I cross a time zone boundary, does some watch get to go for either an additional hour or an hour less?
This also reminds me about ZT vs UT -- according to the same "rules" that makes us take sites in ZT rather than UT, hourly DRs are also supposed to be plotted in ZT. The first DR after crossing a time zone boundary is supposed to be annotated both in the previous ZT and the current one...
Stan, do you suppose that this could contribute to a nautical equivalent to jet lag?I have always supposed that changing ship time as zone time varied was a way to make sure you were properly synched with the shore when you arrived.Bob
