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Re: resetting clocks on big ships
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 2000 Jul 20, 7:41 AM
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 2000 Jul 20, 7:41 AM
On 20 Jul 2000, at 2:48, Paul Hirose wrote: > On large ships where formal watches are stood, how do they handle the > resetting of the clocks when a time zone boundary is crossed? If > you're on watch, and the clocks are set back an hour, do you just have to > grit your teeth and work the extra hour? Or does the skipper adjust the > times of the next few changes of watch so the hit is spread out? I have the navigators handwritten nav log from the last trip of the SS United States and all times are in ZULU(GMT, UT, UTC, UTC1, etc.). He was using Ageton. [Snip-Don't know] Dan Hogan dhhogan@nav.cnchost.com NAV-L Web Page: http://nav.cnchost.com
