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> After all, we already have Zulu time, Unix time and UTC being used in various places. Tangential, but "Zulu time" is just another name for UTC.
by msbarnett 15y ago
> After all, we already have Zulu time, Unix time and UTC being used in various places.
Tangential, but "Zulu time" is just another name for UTC.
- aaronblohowiak 15y agoI hope you never have to care about this, but Zulu is synonymous with GMT, not UTC. UTC includes leap seconds, whereas GMT does not. There also used to be differences with some measurements of GMT starting the numbering at noon instead of midnight (madness!) I am the creator and maintainer of http://the.endoftimezones.com http://the.endoftimezones.com and an amateur time historian.
- adestefan 15y agoZulu includes the leap seconds. Zulu just comes from US Navy denoting it as Time Zone Z and all US Navy time zones are based on offset from UTC.
- aaronblohowiak 15y agoAh, thank you. I suppose that is the amateur in amateur time historian ;)