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Re: Time zone confusion
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2011 Oct 25, 14:53 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2011 Oct 25, 14:53 -0700
U.S. Navy Regulation, Article 1031 issued in 1920 required Navy vessels to keep time based on the standard time zones. The standard correction factors for converting one time to another used
by navigators and, by regulation, the Navy is to use the sign that will
convert local time to Zulu time, this is called the "Zone Description"
(Z.D.) and must be recorded in the log book and next to the clocks. So I suggest that anybody doing Celnav stick to this convention to avoid confusion if trying to use one convention in one situation and another convention in a different situation. gl --- On Tue, 10/25/11, Apache Runner <apacherunner@gmail.com> wrote:
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