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    Re: Time Zone Designations
    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.

       
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