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Michel
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 Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:02 am Post subject: SV: OFF TOPIC: UTC and Zulu time |
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| Quote: | From: Lowell Fitt [lcfitt(at)sbcglobal.net]
- maybe French, Michel? the acronym is more correct.
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Negative, Sir! While many "rocked letters" acronyms are French (OTAN for NATO, and SIDA for AIDS) I know UTC, in French, for "temps universel" or TU.
But the French had their saying in it, Lowell. You see, the prime meridian has during the past centuries been many different places, like Amsterdam, Rome, Paris and ... Greenwich. For Christopher Columbus, it was the Islas Fortunadas, known today as the Canaries Islands.
Until the end of the 19th century, the French simply refused to adopt the most common reference; the Greenwich meridian and had their own chart printed with Paris as the first meridian with an offset in the margin for Greenwich. Since then, they were forced to adopt this arbitrary reference point but insisted that it should be called something else than a reference to a place in UK. Hence the new name of UTC, which replaces now GMT.
For those of you who fear that Santa Claus won't bring them the correct Christmas gift, defeat your destiny by ordering today a fantastic book called "Longitude" by Dava Sobel. You'll find it at amazon.com. A very little book but very well written by a women, who explain in a fresh but simple language, the need to obtain a mean of finding longitude, and the fantastic achievement of Harrison, an English watchmaker.
As a child, I heard my aviator father talking about Zulu time. From what I understand, there is a major difference between Zulu and UTC.
Zulu is the name given to the time zone at Greenwich. Time zones east of Greenwich are called Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc. and west of Greenwich; Mike, November, etc.
Today, and mostly in aviation, only Zulu is used, as a synomym of UTC or GMT. So, during the Norwegian summer, our local time is UTC+2 or Bravo, although the latter is seldom or never used anymore.
Cheers,
Michel
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Guy Buchanan
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:34 pm Post subject: SV: OFF TOPIC: UTC and Zulu time |
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At 01:02 AM 10/17/2006, you wrote:
| Quote: | I know UTC, in French, for "temps universel" or TU.
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And I thought TU meant "Tits Up".
Guy Buchanan
K-IV 1200 / 582-C / Warp / 100% done, thanks mostly to Bob Ducar.
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Lynn Matteson
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:01 pm Post subject: SV: OFF TOPIC: UTC and Zulu time |
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I thought "tits up" was a result of a too aggressive wheel landing. : )
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On Tuesday, October 17, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Guy Buchanan wrote:
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> I know UTC, in French, for "temps universel" or TU.
And I thought TU meant "Tits Up".
Guy Buchanan
K-IV 1200 / 582-C / Warp / 100% done, thanks mostly to Bob Ducar.
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