Out of the Blue [Nov 03, 2024, 12:58 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Happy Standard Time to everyone who had to change their clocks today, as the end
of Daylight Saving Time is once again upon us. For a hot minute there it seemed
like there was momentum behind legislation to make the United States go with
permanent Daylight time, but that seems to have petered out. An
article on the Washington Post makes the
case for why Standard time is healthier for people than Daylight time, so maybe
permanent Standard time would be preferable. But I don't know anyone who thinks
that jacking the clock back and forth twice a year is working well, so hopefully this isn't the
last we've heard of this.
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Follow-up
Prez wrote on Nov 3, 2024, 17:10:Zulu is the US military's term for GMT. I have no idea why they call it Zulu. Maybe they thought they didn't want to have to keep explaining to new recruits what GMT was.
On-board clocks showed "Zulu" time, which I guess is how squadron made sure all of its combat vessels were on the same time.
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