"Joe Hunt" wrote in message
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"Brendan DJ Murphy" wrote in message
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Forgive the stupid question, but why do we all put a "Z" after all
times?

I have always assumed that "Z" = "GMT" but what exactly does "Z"
mean?

Brendan

Z = zulu time = UTC

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/FAQ/SZ.htm#Z

The globe is divided up into 15degree time zones, each having a unique
letter; the zone immediately to the east of us here in the BI is 'A' (or
Alfa), hence when UK is on GMT+1hr during BST, then reporting in local
time you would put 0824A etc. Z is reserved for the 'primary' zone
centred on the Greenwich meridian.

Martin.