How To Read Zulu Time

It s common name is either zero meridian time gmt greenwich mean time referring to the city greenwich in england or utc universal time.

How to read zulu time. It s the uk one so 6 hours later than east coast time. 1 00 am 1 00 zulu. The zulu time converter enables you to convert local time to zulu or gmt time. 1 30 am 1 30 zulu. Longitudes between 7 5 west and 7 5 east.

0 30 am 0 30 zulu. 0 00 am 0 00 zulu. The navy as well as civil aviation uses the letter z phonetically zulu to refer to the time at the prime meridian. Z is the military letter designation of zulu time zone. For example utc 5 is eastern standard time the letter z refers to the greenwich time zone which is zero hours utc 0.

4 00 pm 16 00 previous day pacific. Zulu time is just a standard time zone. 5 hours ahead of new york. Since the nato phonetic alphabet alpha for a bravo for b charlie for c word for z is zulu we also call it zulu time. The satellite images that appear on noaa s web sites are stamped in zulu time.

It s a 24 hour clock that s based on the 0 longitude meridian known as the greenwich meridian and it s what meteorologists use to track weather patterns for universal tracking. No dst zulu military time is a fixed time zone that never observes daylight saving time. Yeach is expressed as a certain number of hours ahead of utc or behind utc. Utc no utc gmt offset. International business standard time.

Zulu time to local time conversions can also be calculated for dates and time in the future with adjustments for daylight saving time. Z zulu time zone. Zulu time zone is therefore also represented by the number 0 or gmt 0 which is why it is called the zero meridian time zone. Noaa satellites use zulu time or coordinated universal time utc as their time reference. 5 00 pm 17 00 previous day pacific.