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How does the military designate the time zones UTC + 13 and UTC + 14 in the phonetic alphabet system?

  • Until the '90s, there were 25 hourly time zones around the world, from UTC - 12 through UTC + 12 inclusive. These are designated with letters of the phonetic alphabet (excluding Juliet, which is location-specific and reserved for local time), as per http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/military/. Since this was adopted, time zones UTC + 13 and UTC + 14 have been created, to accommodation the movement of the international date line to the east of Samoa and Kiribati (respectively). How are these time zones referred to in this system? Do they simply use X-Ray (UTC - 11) and Whiskey (UTC - 10), accompanied by a date designator, or has there been a special code created for these locations?

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    TC+13 is designated: M* UTC+14 is designated: M± Source: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/timezone.htm

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Beats me.  I doubt they use the X-ray or Whiskey designations, because while the *time* would be correct, the date would be a day off. It's an interesting question, though, so I've emailed a friend in the Air Force (my guess is that the AF and the Navy are going to be the two services that use this system the most, since they're mobile and changing time zones more often) to see if he knows.

Paul Cox

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