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   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   J. P. Gilliver wrote on 21/11/23 9:08 pm:   
   > In message  at Tue, 21 Nov 2023   
   > 20:20:34, Daniel65  writes   
   >> J. P. Gilliver wrote on 21/11/23 1:11 am:   
   >>> In message  at Tue, 21 Nov 2023   
   >>> 00:26:27, Daniel65  writes   
   > []   
   >>>> GMT used in Communications cycles as well ..... and renamed to   
   >>>> Zulu for Military Communications as well!!   
   >>> I think that originated from GMT being "+0000", or zero offset -   
   >>> and zulu being the international phonetic alphabet for Z.   
   >>   
   >> Correct .... but, in a Military situation, where you could be   
   >> communicating across Time Zones, without actually knowing what the   
   >> originating and destination time zones are, Zulu (i.e. GMT) was   
   >> often the reference Time zone with both ends of the Comms link   
   >> making the appropriate adjustment to 'Local' Time!!   
   >>   
   >> Here in Victoria, Australia (bottom end of the globe!!), we are   
   >> currently in Daylight Savings Time, so would be using 'Lima' time   
   >> references but our 'normal' Time Zone is 'Kilo'   
   >   
   > Interesting: I knew about Z for zero, but didn't know all the other   
   > time zones had a letter too.   
      
   Yeap .... 26 letters .... drop 'O' and 'I' to limit confusion with '0'   
   and '1' ... leaves you with 24 letters .... for 24 time zones.   
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   Daniel   
      
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