The use of letters for the time is unfortunate, since nautical timezones already use letters, but in a different way. [1] (A-M going east of Zulu, N-Y going wes

The use of letters for the time is unfortunate, since nautical timezones already use letters, but in a different way. [1] (A-M going east of Zulu, N-Y going west). This would make more sense if you adopted the same system, so that Z:00 was midnight in time zone Z. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_time#Letter_suffixes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_time#Letter_suffixes