In this thread I wanted to request the use of the Military Time-zones, especially the "Zulu"-Time.

The reason for this; some of the TG-Players are not coming from the United States.
For these people its very confusing to see event-signup-threads with different timeszones, which they don't know about.

Examples are;

3pm East Coast Time

15:00 until 18:00 East Canada/US

5pm EST

To avoid this problem, I would like to suggest the introduction of the military time and date formatting, which uses a much simpler time and date-formatting than the many ones currently used.

The international military time is the "Zulu"-Time, which is based on the "Greenwhich Mean Time" (GMT) and the "Univeral Time Coordinated" (UTC).
"Zulu"-Time is used to have an international coordinated time, which is used especially for joint-operations with/or in other countries. Until we are basically doing the same, working with people all over the world, it would be very useful for TG.



But to go back to the actual topic, here some information about the military time and date-formatting:




Time Zones:

Name		City	ZULU/GMT/UTC offset
A	Alpha Time Zone	Paris	+1
B	Bravo Time Zone	Athens	+2
C	Charlie Time Zone	Moscow	+3
D	Delta Time Zone	Kabul	+4
E	Echo Time Zone	New Delhi	+5
F	Foxtrot Time Zone	Rangoon	+6
G	Golf Time Zone	Bangkok	+7
H	Hotel Time Zone	Beijing	+8
I	India Time Zone	Tokyo	+9
K	Kilo Time Zone	Brisbane	+10
L	Lima Time Zone	Sydney	+11
M	Mike Time Zone	Kamchatka	+12
N	November Time Zone	Azores	-1
O	Oscar Time Zone	Rio De Janeiro	-2
P	Papa Time Zone	Buenos Aires	-3
Q	Quebec Time Zone	Halifax	-4
R	Romeo Time Zone	New York	-5
S	Sierra Time Zone	Chicago	-6
T	Tango Time Zone	Denver	-7
U	Uniform Time Zone	Los Angeles	-8
V	Victor Time Zone	Anchorage	-9
W	Whiskey Time Zone	Hawaii	-10
X	X-Ray	Wellington	-11
Y	Yankee	Fiji	-12
Z	Zulu Time Zone	Greenwich	GMT 0

Time:

Civilian time uses 1 to 12 to identify each of the 24 hours in the day (am/pm).
The Military Time uses 1 to 24.
The formatting is always 4 digit;
Examples:
- 0800 would be 8am.
- 2000 would be 8pm.


To identify the time zone referred to, you simply add the phonetic letter of the timezone at the end;
Examples:
- 0800Z would be 8am in Greenwich (England)
- 0800R would be 8am in New York (United States)



Date:

In the military, the date-formatting is DDMONTHYY;
Exapmples:
01JAN12 would be the 1st of January 2012.

Note, that the name of the month is shortend to only 3 letters. Also the year is shortend to only the last two numbers. (2012).
If you write the month "short" (Only three letters) you also use the "short" year (only last two numbers).
If you write the month "long" (Complete) you also use the "long" year (Complete);
Examples:
01JANUARY2012 would be the 1st of January 2012.




Examples:

In general, the announcement of an Event could be like the following;
Examples:
EVENT on 01 JANUARY 2012 at 0800Zulu

Additionally you could add more timezones, simply by adding the phonetic letter;
Examples:
EVENT on 01 JANUARY 2012 at 0800Zulu (0300R, 0200S etc)

You could also refer to it by GMT/UTC/Zulu "+" or "-" the hours;
Examples:
EVENT on 01 JANUARY 2012 at 0800Romeo (GMT/ZULU/UTC -5) (means you need to add 5 hours if you are in GMT Timezone!)

Its could be also possible to link the time-zone list from above, or make it somehow "pop-up", so everybody can simple "add" or "substract" the hours shown in this list, to get the time in this timezone.




PS: I only added The Date-formatting to complete this list! I think everybody understands the dates, so this is not needed. As said, I just added it to complete this list!
My main-suggestions is to introduce the time-formatting, to make it easier for everybody around the world!