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Re: Time Zone Designations
From: John D. Howard
Date: 2017 Jan 3, 18:24 -0800
From: John D. Howard
Date: 2017 Jan 3, 18:24 -0800
Long haul airplane crews kept logs and other nav records in Zulu. Flew too fast across time zones to even know which one you were in - fly from Alaska to Norway over the top and keep track.
Some of my crew kept two watches. Others, like me, had a Rolex GMT Master with an extra 24 hour hand. I alway kept my watch on Zulu ( Zuul ? ) and after I landed asked the first person I saw "what time is it?" then set the bezel on the 24 hour hand to local time.
I did not know how sailors kept time and it was a source of confusion for me when reading texts on navigation with all the talk of WT and ZT and calculating time etc. I would yell at the book " just keep Zulu!"
Air Force and Navy - different worlds.
John H.
