Originally posted by flipshark
There is already a universal time zone used by the USA.
I'm not sure of the name specifically but I think it is called zooloo time and it is used by the military to avoid confusion in strikes and things where time zones are different.

Basically, all soldiers when using zooloo time (again not sure of name) don't need to know the local time, they simply follow zooloo time. So a strike at 0 400 hours could be 4AM in one place 11PM back in the US, etc., etc.,


It's Zulu time but close enough

The world is divided into 24 time zones. For easy reference in communications, a letter of the alphabet has been assigned to each time zone (less the letters "I" and "O"). The "clock" at Greenwich, England is used as the standard clock for international reference of time in communications, military, maritime and other activities that cross time zones. The letter designator for this clock is Z.

Times are usually written in military time or 24 hour format such as 1830Z. To pronounce this, the phonetic alphabet is used for the letter Z, or Zulu. This time is sometimes referred to as Zulu Time because of its assigned letter. 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.
Gerbs, the original post in the thread was a joke, I don't understand why you don't take it as such?