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re: Storm Tracking Thread: Post Tropical Storm Hermine

Posted on 8/26/16 at 12:05 pm to
Posted by choppadocta
Louisiana
Member since May 2014
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Posted on 8/26/16 at 12:05 pm to
Z is for Zulu or time measured at Greenwich England also known as GMT. For central time zone the difference is 5 hours behind the z time.
This post was edited on 8/26/16 at 12:07 pm
Posted by slackster
Houston
Member since Mar 2009
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Posted on 8/26/16 at 12:09 pm to
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Z is for Zulu or time measured at Greenwich England also known as GMT. For central time zone the difference is 5 hours behind the z time.


I tried explaining it this way yesterday and someone accurately pointed out that the actual local time in Greenwich, England is 6 hours ahead of CDT, but that is because Greenwich now uses a different timezone. Up until 1972 it used GMT (or UTC or Z).
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