Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Dec 1998 06:20:04 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mark H. Wood" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] APM fixes, workarounds and tidying |
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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Lauri Tischler wrote: > Billy Harvey wrote: > > politically correct statement. I've always preferred the term Zulu, > > based on personal background. > > The term apparently originates from native South-Africans who lived in > kraal's and used to wear jars on their heads :)
Via the U.S. military phonetic alphabet, and the military use of letters to designate timezones. Zone Z is offset 0 hours from GMT.
-- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu Innovation is only valuable if it improves one's life; otherwise it's just one more silly change to cope with.
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