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Re: resetting clocks on big ships
From: Clarence Smith
Date: 2000 Jul 20, 12:26 PM
From: Clarence Smith
Date: 2000 Jul 20, 12:26 PM
When I was in the Navy many years ago sailing from Long Beach to Japan and back, we changed the clocks at 1700 ( the first dog watch, you got a three hour watch instead of two) when setting them back and 0100 when setting them ahead ( You got a three hour watch instead of four - The only times I enjoyed midwatches.) ----- Original Message ----- From Dan HoganTo: Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 9:40 AM Subject: Re: resetting clocks on big ships > On 20 Jul 2000, at 2:48, Paul Hirose wrote: > > > On large ships where formal watches are stood, how do they handle the > > resetting of the clocks when a time zone boundary is crossed? If > > you're on watch, and the clocks are set back an hour, do you just have to > > grit your teeth and work the extra hour? Or does the skipper adjust the > > times of the next few changes of watch so the hit is spread out? > > I have the navigators handwritten nav log from the last trip of the SS > United States and all times are in ZULU(GMT, UT, UTC, UTC1, etc.). He was > using Ageton. > > [Snip-Don't know] > > > > Dan Hogan > dhhogan@nav.cnchost.com > NAV-L Web Page: http://nav.cnchost.com