Zulu time

Thomas,

Well, because there is no preset for GMT, you could just set a clock widget to display the time in one of the west Africa cities in the Greenwich time zone that do not mess with DST (e.g. Accra). I think that this works. If it does, then it would be fairly easy do edit the clock widget's city list to make one of these cities display 'GMT' or 'Zulu' instead of the city name.

bd

I live just 5degrees west of the Greenwich meridian (though 55 degrees north). I have my time set to Edinburgh or London which are on the meridian near as d it. I am not sure if that gives me British Summertime or whatever. If it does then the Apple routine for the clock or any third party app which works on location will do the same for any place one the meridian, and will vary the presented time according to seaswon. If not it may stick you with something like the double summertime we had in WW2.

Incidentally why do you call it 'Zulu' time. I can't say I have checked the longitude of the Zulu homeland in Natal but I would bet Natal is not on it nor is is it in West Africa.

I do agree Thomas about the utility of GMT. Armies use it. They after all move about the world and local times would be a problem for synchronisation

"why do they call it zulu time?......."
I believe when the time zones were originally set up (don't know when that was), they started at 0 degrees longitude and while proceeding east they labeled each 15 degree zone with a letter of the alphabet (alpha, bravo, charlie, etc..) omitting I and O there were 24 time zones, the last one (from 15 degrees West to zero) contain the city of Greenwich, hence the name Greenich Mean Time and the name Zulu time...at least that was how it was told to me....

Thanks Kevin, we live and learn. The choice made is confusing. It confused me. I do hope Thomas gets his GMT clock. I keep at least one watch always on GMT.
I remember hearing of a woman in the 19th century who 'took the time to Southend'. She would carry an accurate time piece on the train from London to Southend on the Thames estuary to provide synchronisation to subscribers. There were indeed quite idiosycratic local times not related to longitude.
Am I right? When I look at a map I have of US time zones it appears there are several 'time islands'.

robert,
you're right about the 'islands'. i think over land certain leberties were taken for the sake of convienience. take a look at this page:

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/world_tzones.html

kevin

Thomas,

The standard clock widget will display the time for any zone, and you can have as many instances of the clock widget as will fit on your screen.

bd

Hi Thomas,

The best application I've found for this is OtherTime.
[Works perfectly with Tiger too BTW, not Jaguar or Panther only]

Axl