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The military time zones are a standardized, uniform set of time zones for expressing time across different regions of the world, named after the NATO phonetic alphabet. The Zulu time zone (Z) is equivalent to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and is often referred to as the military time zone.
In American English, the term military time is a synonym for the 24-hour clock. In the US, the time of day is customarily given almost exclusively using the 12-hour clock notation, which counts the hours of the day as 12, 1, ..., 11 with suffixes a.m. and p.m. distinguishing the two diurnal repetitions of this sequence.
The 24-hour clock is used in military, public safety, and scientific contexts in the United States. [4] It is best known for its use by the military and is therefore commonly called "military time". In U.S. military use, 24-hour time is traditionally written without a colon (1800 instead of 18:00).
Military designation of days and hours. NATO designations are specified in Allied Administrative Publication AAP-6 ( STANAG 3680) NATO Glossary of Terms and Definitions, and marked (NATO) in this list. Entries specific to the U.S. and defined only in Joint Publication JP 1-02 [1] are marked (US).
DDHHMMSSZmmmYY - Full time (used for software timestamps) DDHHMMZmmmYY - shortened time (used e.g. for timestamps manually written) DDHHMMZ - short time (e.g. used for planning) Z references the military identifier of time zone: UTC-12: Y (e.g., Baker Island) UTC-11: X (American Samoa, Niue) UTC-10: W (Honolulu, HI) UTC-9: V (Juneau, AK)
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time. It establishes a reference for the current time, forming the basis for civil time and time zones .
Hours on a 24-hour clock ("military time") are expressed as "hundred" or "hundred hours". [7] (1000 is read "ten hundred" or "ten hundred hours"; 10 pm would be "twenty-two hundred".) Fifteen and thirty minutes past the hour is expressed as "a quarter past" or "after" [8] and "half past", respectively, from their fraction of the hour.
This is a list of established military terms which have been in use for at least 50 years. Since technology and doctrine have changed over time, not all of them are in current use, or they may have been superseded by more modern terms.
In the military, dwell time is the amount of time that service members spend in their home station between deployments to war zones. It is used to calculate the deploy-to-dwell ratio. Dwell time is designed to allow service members a mental and physical break from combat and to give them time with their families.
"This is a list of time zone names" should likely be changed to something more like "This is a list of military designations for given UTC offsets". For example, the Canadian Forces treat Romeo and Quebec as offset designations (-0500 and -0400 respectively), and use the local time zone (Eastern) when referencing a timezone.
