Military Time Converter Plus And Minus

It serves as a geographic baseline for time zone reference and calculations.

Here is a World Clock that is keyed to the current time on your computer clock and displays time around the world.

Military Time Converter Plus And Minus

The plus and minus signs denote number of hours ahead or behind Greenwich Mean Time.

This version of the clock offers expanded features which might be useful to you, including.

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The Zulu term stems from military usage while Coordinated Universal Time is the civilian term for this 24-hour clock.

In 1852 the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England began transmitting time telegraphically and just three years later became the standard time in most of Great Britain.

Also, charts and maps were made with reference to the observatory as the zero or prime meridian.

The Greenwich meridian was the most popular of these in part due to the reputation for reliability and correctness of the Greenwich Observatorys publications of navigational data.

This 0 meridian divides the Eastern from the Western Hemisphere.

Today, one can visit the Royal Observatory and straddle this 0 meridian with one foot in each hemisphere.

However, today the individual zone boundaries are no longer straight, nor are they always continuous, as they have been modified for convenience and to satisfy the desires of sovereign nations.

At the meeting of the -12 and 12 time zones is the International Date Line.

This means you advance the clock 24 hours; in essence you advance one day on the calendar.

Moving east across the International Date Line means subtracting 24 hours from the clock thereby reversing one day on the calendar.

Z-time does not change with the change for daylight saving time but the local time will change.

For example, 00Z in the Central STANDARD Time is at 6:00 p.m.

Z occurs at 7:00 p.m.

Central DAYLIGHT SAVING Time.