24 Hours

aljude · Post by **aljude** » 12 Dec 2008, 12:15

Not a criticism but more of an observation!
Have you thought about changing the forum times to 24Hr display, if possible, as the vast majority of people that use this site are "military minded" it should pose no problem for them.
It would get rid of the "am/pm" that would not be necessary.

Tony

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 12 Dec 2008, 16:28

Yea we could do that, although the site owner is a Texan and they've got their own way of looking at the world............

BadPvtDan · Post by **BadPvtDan** » 12 Dec 2008, 16:35

That's right. You're either a Texan or you're a foreigner.

aljude · Post by **aljude** » 12 Dec 2008, 16:59

lol, as long as we stick to GMT and not do that awful daylight saving time or Zulu as they like to put it....
The great thinking ones in Brussels wanted us in the UK to go on to Central European Time.... the problem with that is we are not in Central Europe but a small island seperating the North Sea from the Atlantic and not "really" in Europe.

Well that is my opinion, lol

[Western European] Tony...

GrahamS · Post by **GrahamS** » 12 Dec 2008, 17:15

It isn't GMT for nothing - perhaps Europe should adopt it themselves..

delbydoo · Post by **delbydoo** » 12 Dec 2008, 18:01

GrahamS wrote:It isn't GMT for nothing - perhaps Europe should adopt it themselves..

Seconded!

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 12 Dec 2008, 18:29

BadPvtDan wrote:That's right. You're either a Texan or you're a foreigner.

LOL.......Texas WAS it's own country at one point.

Weescotty · Post by **Weescotty** » 14 Mar 2009, 11:38

Think thats bad.

In the Army we used Zulu, Alpha and Bravo times during the course of the year.

If I remember correctly -
Zulu - Winter
Alpha - Summer
Bravo - The short period where some of Europe had changed to Summer time, but the U.K. was still on Winter time.

Firebird · Post by **Firebird** » 14 Mar 2009, 12:48

I don't know about the Army, but in the RAF Zulu was GMT, Alpha was local time at originating/departure point and Bravo was local time at destination point.

Of course it could have changed in the last twenty years.

Greg · Post by **Greg** » 14 Mar 2009, 14:02

Almost

Zulu is indeed GMT, but the letters represent the difference between local time and zulu time. It's a NATO standard.

In Belgium, we are Alpha time during winter (GMT+1) and Bravo time during summer when we add DST (GMT+2). In aviation we use Zulu time as elsewhere.

Code: Select all

Z	UTC
Y	UTC - 12 hours
X	UTC - 11 hours
W	UTC - 10 hours
V	UTC - 9 hours
U	UTC - 8 hours
T	UTC - 7 hours
S	UTC - 6 hours
R	UTC - 5 hours
Q	UTC - 4 hours
P	UTC - 3 hours
O	UTC - 2 hours
N	UTC - 1 hour
A	UTC + 1 hour
B	UTC + 2 hours
C	UTC + 3 hours
D	UTC + 4 hours
E	UTC + 5 hours
F	UTC + 6 hours
G	UTC + 7 hours
H	UTC + 8 hours
I	UTC + 9 hours
K	UTC + 10 hours
L	UTC + 11 hours
M	UTC + 12 hours

Hope this helps,

Greg

BadPvtDan · Post by **BadPvtDan** » 14 Mar 2009, 14:14

It's 9:13 AM here.
HTH

CelticWarrior · Post by **CelticWarrior** » 14 Mar 2009, 14:41

Weescotty was never in the Army, he was a REME

Firebird · Post by **Firebird** » 14 Mar 2009, 14:52

Ah thanks for that, Greg.

So it appears that we have changed it since my day. hardly surprising really I suppose.

So is NATO Standard still white with two sugars then?

Greg · Post by **Greg** » 14 Mar 2009, 15:36

BadPvtDan wrote:It's 9:13 AM here.
HTH

That would be your Juliet time

(Juliet Time = the observer's current local time)

Greg

BadPvtDan · Post by **BadPvtDan** » 14 Mar 2009, 15:46

Is she hot?

Greg · Post by **Greg** » 14 Mar 2009, 16:06

She's military, so I don't think so... At least not if she's Belgian military

Greg

jetmax · Post by **jetmax** » 14 Mar 2009, 17:27

Tirithon wrote:She's military, so I don't think so... At least not if she's Belgian military

Greg

Ouch!!

f47420 · Post by **f47420** » 14 Mar 2009, 18:29

Now is now and then was/is whenever.
As long as the coffee on and I'am getting payed who cares.

Mark.