Re: resetting clocks on big ships
Subject: Re: resetting clocks on big ships
From: Clarence Smith (cesmith1@XXX.XXX)
Date: Thu Jul 20 2000 - 14:26:22 EDT
When I was in the Navy many years ago sailing from Long Beach to Japan and
back, we changed the clocks at 1700 ( the first dog watch, you got a three
hour watch instead of two) when setting them back and 0100 when setting
them ahead ( You got a three hour watch instead of four - The only times I
enjoyed midwatches.)
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Hogan <dhhogan@XXX.XXX>
To: <NAVIGATION-L@XXX.XXX>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: resetting clocks on big ships
> 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@XXX.XXX
> NAV-L Web Page: http://nav.cnchost.com
