Time--What Time Is It?

What is Zulu Time?
It's official name is Coordinated Universal Time or UTC. Previously it had been known as Greenwich Mean Time or GMT but this has been replaced with UTC. Check out these Web sites for more information.
·	What is "Zulu" time? US Navy
·	Zulu Time? NASA/Mobile Aeronautics Education Laboratory
·	Military & Civilian Time Designations From A - Z Greenwich 2000®
·	What Time Is It? U.S. Naval Observatory
·	Standard Time Zone Conversions U.S. Naval Observatory
·	Here's a Web page that shows "Zulu" conversions for all the US time zones but in a different format.

Daylight Saving Time
·	When does Daylight Saving Time/Standard Time begin? National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (note that it's "saving" time and not "savings" time)
·	Details of Daylight Saving Time Includes a calendar of dates, explanation and history.

Sunrise & Sunset
·	Current Day's Sunrise, Sunset and Moon Phase for Nashville (from AccuWeather.com)

Moon Phase
·	Current phase of the moon U.S. Naval Observatory
·	Phases of the Moon--Dates U.S. Naval Observatory
·	Full Moon Dates--Old Farmer's Almanac
·	Current Day's Moonrise and Moonset for Nashville (from AccuWeather.com)
·	Think you know the definition of a "Blue Moon?" Better think again! Check out the real definition in What's a Blue Moon? from Sky and Telescope Magazine.
·	An earlier article in Sky and Telescope Magazine gives still another explanation and has some interesting "facts." Check out *Once in a Blue Moon*.

Miscellaneous
·	What is a leap year? National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
·	The Green Flash
·	Time Service Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory
·	FAQs Page at the U.S. Naval Observatory "Phenomena of the Sun and Moon", "Time", "Calendars and Historical Events", "Computing Astronomical Phenomena", "Other Topics", "Links"
·	FAQs Page at the Time & Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Here is a great real time "ticking" clock.
Requires a Java enabled browser.
(May not work with Netscape.)
The Official U.S. Time (Central Time)
Provided by
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
and
U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO)

Zulu Conversion Chart
Central Time Zone

Zulu Time (UTC)	Central Standard Time (CST) - 6:00	Central Daylight Saving Time (CDT) - 5:00
00	6 PM	7 PM
01	7	8
02	8	9
03	9	10
04	10	11
05	11	12 Midnight
06	12 Midnight	1 AM
07	1 AM	2
08	2	3
09	3	4
10	4	5
11	5	6
12	6 AM	7 AM
13	7	8
14	8	9
15	9	10
16	10	11
17	11	12 Noon
18	12 Noon	1 PM
19	1 PM	2
20	2	3
21	3	4
22	4	5
23	5 PM	6 PM

= Previous Weekday (relative to Zulu time)
For example, when it's 00 Zulu Thursday morning it's still Wednesday in the Central Time Zone. The Central Time Zone is 6 hours behind Zulu time (during Standard Time).
00 Zulu (Thurs.) = 6 PM CST (Wed.).

Time--What Time Is It?

Zulu Conversion Chart Central Time Zone

Real-Time Zulu Clock Zulu Time is also known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) (from www.greenwichmeantime.com)

Zulu Conversion Chart
Central Time Zone

Real-Time Zulu Clock
Zulu Time is also known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
(from www.greenwichmeantime.com)